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Last month’s Supreme Court decision in U.S. v. Windsor held section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act to be unconstitutional.

PricewaterhouseCoopers made some major changes Wednesday to the firm’s U.S. leadership team, including the creation of two new leadership roles, effective immediately.

Thomson Reuters has integrated the upcoming back-to-school tax holidays into its ONESOURCE Indirect Tax Software.

The chairmen of the House Ways and Means Committee and the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee have written to the head of the Internal Revenue Service about the status of several of the officials who resigned or were placed on administrative leave in the wake of the Tea Party targeting scandal.

Sage North America has launched Sage Mobile Sales, Sage Mobile Service, and Sage Billing and Payment offerings to integrate with their Sage 100 and 300 ERP systems.

Sanford Horwitz has stepped into the role of chief executive officer at Goldstein Schechter Koch.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has named James L. Kroeker, former chief accountant for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, as a member and vice chairman.

Every company in every industry faces some degree of risk. But some risks are greater than others, particularly sensitivity risk (related to external factors like commodity prices and competition), which accounts for about half of all risk incurred by any company.

Gaylen Hansen, chairman of the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy, discusses the services that NASBA is offering to state boards in an interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Daniel Hood.

The Internal Revenue Service spent over $4.8 million in fiscal year 2011 and $4.7 million in fiscal year 2012 for executive travel, according to a new government report.