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Expanding businesses into new markets brings with it a slew of new factors to consider: globalization, digitization, and company culture, to name a few. Recognizing these obstacles, the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) have released Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA) reports entitled Rethinking the Value Chain, a series designed to help businesses reevaluate opportunities in emerging markets and strengthen their value chains.

The vast majority of fraudulent activity on travel and expense reports can be attributed to just 5 percent of employees, according to a new report.

Top 100 firm Friedman LLP will integrate Executive Sounding Board Associates LLC into its firm. The pairing of the business consulting, turnaround management, restructuring and crisis management practice firm will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2015.

The Treasury Department’s new steps to curb the tide of corporate inversion deals and the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development’s recently released recommendations aimed at combating tax base erosion and profit shifting signal increasing momentum in the battle to prevent corporate tax revenues from eroding.

PwC announced it has expanded its Data Protection and Privacy practice within its Risk Assurance division, adding team members and service offerings.

The American Institute of CPAs’ Auditing Standards Board has issued a third exposure draft resulting from its Attest Clarity Project, in an effort to address concerns about the clarity, length and complexity of the attestation standards for CPAs.

Syracuse University's Martin J. Whitman School of Management, in conjunction with 2U, Inc, has announced the Accounting@Syracuse program - an online Master of Science in Professional Accounting course, that acts as an offshoot of the existing MBA@Syracuse program.

Business development companies are increasingly using off-balance sheet investment vehicles known as senior secured loan programs to increase their effective portfolio leverage without running afoul of regulatory limits on balance sheet leverage, but that trend can be risky, according to research from Fitch Ratings.

The Treasury Department announced steps that will make it harder for U.S. companies to move their addresses outside the country to reduce taxes, clamping down on the practice known as inversions.

Sage North America announced an agreement to acquire PayChoice, the privately held provider of payroll solutions for small and medium-sized businesses.