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The Governmental Accounting Standards Board has released an implementation guide for the new GASB standards for accounting and financial reporting for pensions.

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

RKL eSolutions has added former e2b teknologies project manager and business development director Russ Griffith to its Sage 500 ERP and growing Sage X3 team of consultants.

The National Association of State Boards of Accountancy’s Center for the Public Trust is launching a Student Ethical Leadership Certification Program.

The Financial Accounting Foundation has appointed Steven E. Buller, the managing director and former CFO of the investment management firm BlackRock, as the new chairman of the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council, a key advisory group for the Financial Accounting Standards Board, which the FAF oversees.

The American Institute of CPAs’ Auditing Standards Board is proposing changes in subject-matter specific attestation standards.

Since the economic crash some CPA firms have managed to double in size, increase their customer base and open new offices by utilizing data to understand their customers’ needs and adopting new technologies to create innovative offerings.

Global accounting firm network Baker Tilly International reported Thursday that its annual revenues grew 3 percent to $3.4 billion for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2013.

Congress voted in December 2010 to let wealthy Americans make tax-free gifts of as much as $5 million—and the money flowed.

President Obama introduced a new retirement savings vehicle that he called a “MyRA” in his State of the Union address on Tuesday evening, and the White House has followed up with more details on Wednesday about it.