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I believe that opportunity provides an open door to a limitless future. I also believe that every young person—no matter their race, gender, orientation or disability- should be afforded the exposure to these opportunities.

The Internal Revenue Service has reportedly posted the Social Security numbers of tens of thousands of people on the Internet before taking down the information after a whistleblower pointed out the mistake.

The House has approved a bill that prohibits the Public Company Accounting and Oversight Board from forcing public companies to automatically change or rotate their independent auditing firms.

Deloitte’s Canadian firm said Monday that it has signed a binding agreement to acquire the SAP consulting firm Quattro Integration Group.

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s custody rule governing investment advisors’ custody of client assets imposes various requirements and, in turn, costs on investment advisors, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office.

Paul Dunn, chairman of the business giving organization Buy1GIVE1 and founder of Results Accountants' Systems, talks with Accounting Today senior editor Danielle Lee at the Practitioners Symposium and Tech+ Conference about how firms can get people to show up on time for meetings by scheduling them for unusual times of the day.

The Financial Planning Coalition submitted a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission saying it would "vigorously oppose" attempts to weaken the fiduciary standard for broker-dealers and submitted research showing a client-first standard does not limit advice to “mass market” clients.

The leaders of Congress’s two main tax-writing committees kicked off their national tax reform tour Monday with meetings at two businesses in the Twin Cities area.

IT, accounting and finance administrative processes dominate the future outsourcing plans of major companies, according to a new survey by KPMG.

The profession is changing quickly—which was overtly evident at this year’s AICPA Practitioners Symposium and Tech+ Conference in Las Vegas. The "Cool Kids" have definitely made an impact.