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A former UBS AG executive gave a primer on the workings of Swiss bank secrecy to a Florida jury hearing the tax-conspiracy trial of Raoul Weil, who once ran the bank’s global wealth-management business.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board announced that it is accepting applications for research fellowships for next year.

Striving to be future leaders in the accounting profession, 37 applicants recently graduated from AICPA's 2014 Leadership Academy - an intensive, four-day program held in Durham, N.C. that looks to inspire and connect CPA leaders to professional networks and opportunities.

Middle-market companies have had a tough couple of years on the tax front, according to a survey by Top 5 firm McGladrey LLP.

As traveling professionals know, it's best to stick with the familiar out on the road. Supporting this, big brands reigned supreme when cloud-based travel and expense management software provider Certify recently shared their findings on millions of receipts and expenses for the third quarter of 2014.

As a manager at a CPA firm, I am constantly looking to expand my network in search of developing new opportunities for my firm.

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

To advocate free services for low-to-moderate income taxpayers, top officials from the New York State Tax Department and the United Way of Northern New York met today in the first ever North Country Community Outreach Tax Summit.

Creating a Chief Growth Officer or Chief Marketing Officer position is the trend among larger professional services firms today. It’s a good idea for yours, too.

The Internal Revenue Service paid approximately $33 million for paper tax records storage services in fiscal year 2013, and as of March 2014, and the agency had 5.42 million cubic feet of paper tax records stored at various Federal Records Centers across the country, according to a new report.