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I don’t know about you, but there’s nothing like blistering 90-degree days with high humidity and quick-forming violent afternoon thunderstorms to get your adrenaline going. Or going in the wrong direction.

The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board released its first set of industry-focused provisional standards on Wednesday, starting with the health care sector.

Self-described conservative and Tea Party groups seeking tax-exempt status were asked more questions by the Internal Revenue Service and had longer delays than progressive organizations, according to an analysis by the House Ways and Means Committee.

Liechtensteinische Landesbank AG, a bank based in Vaduz, Liechtenstein, has agreed to pay more than $23.8 million to the United States and entered into a non-prosecution agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York under which it produced account files of more than 200 noncompliant U.S. taxpayers.

While human resource executives say that skills-based volunteering enhances job prospects for college graduates and returning military veterans, according to a new survey from Deloitte, less than half of those surveyed students and military personnel view volunteering at a nonprofit as a way to develop skills and experience for their careers.

Accounting and finance professionals will need to have a global perspective in the years ahead, according to a new survey from Robert Half Management Resources.

Private sector employers added 200,000 jobs from June to July, with the job gains distributed across all sizes of businesses and in many industries, including professional and business services.

A recent Forrester survey found that 69 percent of surveyed mid- to large-sized businesses view cloud-based expense management software as beneficial to cost reduction, believing such products could help reduce expenses by 20 percent or more, though few are using them.

Accounting Today is now accepting submissions for its annual Managing Partner Elite list of top firm leaders.

SWK Technologies has signed an agreement with UK-based Sage ERP X3 partner Inixion to collaborate on sales and implementation projects of the enterprise product, which will span the territories served by both firms.