The Latest

Jeffrey Baliban has joined Top 100 Firm Citrin Cooperman as partner. He will work in the firm’s New York City headquarters in the Valuation and Forensic Services group.

Top 100 Firm, CohnReznick LLP, signed a letter of intent to acquire the real estate consulting boutique NOI Strategies. The deal is expected to close Feb. 1, 2015.

The AICPA is set to release the results of the AICPA PFSi (Personal Financial Satisfaction Index), a new economic gauge that measures the personal financial standing of typical Americans, at 7:00 a.m. EST, Thursday, January 15.

Certify, a provider of travel and expense management software, has created an amusing infographic of some of the Top 10 Craziest Business Expenses that were reported last year.

The Internal Revenue Service has introduced an International Data Exchange Service that financial institutions and tax authorities in other countries will use to report tax information under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, or FATCA.

Congressman Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., is introducing legislation to provide a “Paycheck Bonus Tax Credit” of $1,000 for every worker, which would be paid for with taxes on financial trading.

Former BDO Seidman chairman and CEO Denis M. Field has filed an appeal with the New York Superior Court’s Appellate Division, asking the court to reverse a state Supreme Court ruling denying his petition to vacate an arbitration decision in favor of BDO Seidman on the grounds that the decision was based on fraud at the firm.

David J. Moynihan, a past president of the New York State Society of CPAs and audit partner at the Bonadio Group’s Syracuse office, died early Friday morning after a nearly year-long battle with cancer.

Harriet Greenberg and Kim Dula of Friedman LLP offer tips for female CPAs who are on the track to becoming partner at their firms. Greenberg was recently promoted to co-managing partner at Friedman.

Last week I wrote about my introduction to QuickBooks and how we took our entire staff to a training course for it. Today I am writing about training for the most basic software we use: Excel, Word and Adobe.