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CCH has released a new tax briefing offering insights and analysis to assist tax practitioners and their clients with year-end tax planning.

There was lots of vendor and consultant news over the past week, but overall we want to know what’s up with all the funding going into cloud accounting software, and where exactly does Intuit factor in?

Mary Kopczynski, CEO of 8of9 Consulting, discusses the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, and its implications, delays and controversies, in the first of a two-part interview with AccountingToday.com editor-in-chief Michael Cohn.

CPA and consulting firm Wipfli closed all of its offices Sept. 26 so hundreds of employees could give back locally through the firm’s ninth annual Community Day.

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Stephen Baldwin, a member of the Baldwin family of actors that also includes his brothers Alec, William and Daniel, appeared Friday in a Rockland County, N.Y., courtroom and agreed to pay $100,000 of the $343,068 that he owes New York State in back personal income taxes, penalty and interest.

The Canadian Securities Administrators, an umbrella organization of Canada’s provincial and territorial securities regulators, has proposed changes to its auditor oversight rules with the goal of giving securities regulators more insight into situations where Canada’s audit firm regulator has imposed sanctions on an audit firm.

Sage, Epicor and Intacct partner e2b teknologies has released Anytime Collect 2014, the latest version if its flagship accounts receivable management software which now features a browser-based design, improved communication workflow, redesigned screens and new icons.

BDO USA once again took the top spot among major firms in our quarterly ranking of new Securities and Exchange Commission audit clients, this time with a whopping 36 net new clients -- the result, largely, of a number of major mergers the firm completed over the summer.

Jackson Hewitt is gearing up this tax season to offer its tax customers help with signing up for the Obamacare health insurance marketplaces, despite the technical problems that have plagued the new exchanges since they launched at the beginning of this month.