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Highlights of some of our favorite tax-related blogs from the past week.

The International Federation of Accountants has launched its annual survey of small and midsized accounting practices around the world to gain insights into the issues facing the global profession.

From time to time professionals get frustrated with their referral relationships - specifically, the amount of time that passes between their first interaction with a potential referral source and when they actually get a quality referral. I remind them that there are several moving pieces to every referral relationship that need to be considered before becoming frustrated at a lack of results.

Both parties in Congress agree the U.S. Tax Code is a mess and needs to be revamped. That doesn’t mean it will happen.

BDO USA’s recent addition of SS&G staff and partners, which bolstered its presence in the Midwest, came with a healthy serving of SS&G’s restaurant practice. “This deal is huge for us,” Wayne Berson, CEO of BDO USA, said during an interview with Accounting Today.

The app landscape is full of promises to increase productivity and collaboration, but Quip delivers with a full suite of tools—including spreadsheets—that all coexist in one app.

On Monday, the AICPA announced the five recipients of the 2014-15 John L. Carey Scholarship. The one-year, $5,000 scholarship is awarded to students from liberal arts and other non-business backgrounds who are currently pursuing graduate accounting degrees.

The crime of stealing tax refunds through identity theft is “no longer exploding,” U.S. Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen said yesterday.

EXL has launched an integrated ARM solution combining benchmarking and best practices with analytics to optimize working capital and improve customer experience.

Top 100 Firm BDO USA LLP has made a major expansion in the Midwest with the addition of more than 375 staff, including 36 partners, from SS&G Inc and its SS&G Parkland subsidiary.