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The Financial Accounting Standards Board has added two short-term projects to its agenda to simplify U.S. GAAP as part of its initiative to reduce complexity in accounting standards.

After several months of decline, accountants’ confidence in the prospects for economic growth saw a sharp uptick, according to the June edition of Accounting Today’s Accountants Confidence Index.

The Internal Revenue Service has adopted a "Taxpayer Bill of Rights" that it said would become a cornerstone document to provide the nation's taxpayers with a better understanding of their rights.

The Tax Court, in a division opinion, has concluded that a Finnish employee of the Finnish Mission to the United Nations waived her treaty right to exclude income from a foreign government from taxation, because she had become a permanent resident of the U.S.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board adopted a new auditing standard Tuesday, along with amendments to other auditing standards, to require auditors to pay more attention to three critical areas of the audit: related-party transactions, significant unusual transactions, and a company’s financial relationships and transactions with its executive officers.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board issued an accounting standards update Tuesday to improve financial reporting for development-stage entities, eliminating the inception-to-date information and differences in consolidation guidance.

A temporary tax holiday for U.S. companies to repatriate offshore profits would cost the government $95.8 billion in revenue over a decade, said the Joint Committee on Taxation, Congress’s nonpartisan scorekeeper.

Former BDO Seidman LLP Vice Chairman Charles Bee’s cooperation with prosecutors in a $1 billion tax fraud probe didn’t spare him from prison, as a judge, citing the magnitude of the crime, sentenced him to 16 months.

New England College’s School of Graduate and Financial Studies has produced a new infographic with six tips for businesses to avoid committing financial fraud.

When an individual receives a Schedule K-1 from a partnership reflecting a loss, there are several things to consider before deciding if the loss can be deducted. In order to determine deductibility, a partner's basis and at risk limitations need to be evaluated.