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Cloud accounting vendor FreshBooks has launched its FreshBooks Accountant Center, which gives accountants a secure portal to access their clients’ data and interact more closely with them.

In my former life as a partner in a CPA firm, I struggled with wearing all the hats a typical partner needs to wear when trying to build a successful firm.

The American Institute of CPAs announced that it recently enrolled its 400,000th member.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has added five more projects to its agenda for simplifying accounting standards, including short-term projects related to debt and tax accounting.

I wake up at 5:00 am Monday through Saturday. I exercise on weekdays from 5:20 am to 6:20 am. I eat breakfast, which includes a yogurt, Cheerios (with 2 percent milk) and a string cheese. I am in the office by 7:30 am.

In case you haven’t heard, National Grandparents Day is just around the corner, on September 7.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has released a new report showing that auditors of brokers and dealers who were inspected last year continued to have a high number of problems with independence and audit deficiencies.

The Internal Revenue Service has denied tax-exempt status to a group that claimed it was dedicated to protecting the human rights of defenseless victims of involuntary microwave and mind control attacks.

The International Accounting Education Standards Board has issued a new plan to support the adoption and implementation of the recently revised International Education Standards for accountants.

The International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants has proposed to strengthen the auditor independence standards in the ethics code to address long associations with audit and assurance clients.