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A pair of lawmakers have introduced legislation to end a tax break that favors foreign-controlled insurers over U.S. insurers.

A post-implementation review of the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s business combinations standard found lingering questions in the minds of some investors, particularly about fair value, despite improvements in the usefulness of the information.

The Partnership Against Domestic Violence has inducted Debbie Sessions, partner and chief operating officer of Porter Keadle Moore, into its Women’s Legacy Society.

Understanding the detailed requirements of the health care reform law, and the potential penalties of noncompliance presents, challenges to accountants who are trying to advise their business clients about the Affordable Care Act.

Attendees at Accounting Today's Meet the Editors Dinner at Keens Steakhouse in New York discuss the threats and challenges facing accountants. Interviewees include Sharon Putyra of AccountantsWorld, Scott Fleszar of the Tax & Accounting business of Thomson Reuters, Kasey Bayne of Kashoo, Jorge Olavarrieta of Intuit, Kevin Anderson of eFileCabinet, LeeAnn McNeill of ADP Small Business Services, Kerri Gibson of CCH Small Firm Services abd Craig Walker of Xero.

CFOs have lowered their projections for hiring and are increasingly concerned about health care reform and the fate of the Eurozone, according to a new survey.

The largest single variable in housing tax credit pricing is a function of the Community Reinvestment Act’s investment test value of a given property’s location, according to a new report.

What many warehouse administrators, logistic departments, small business controllers and even accounting teams may not consider is the business value realized from an integrated accounting and inventory management system.

Three students of the Beta Alpha Psi accounting club at Utah State University’s Jon M. Huntsman School of Business recently took first place in two areas of the Deloitte Best Practices competition.

Lois Lerner, the mid-level Internal Revenue Service official at the center of a controversy over the agency’s scrutiny of small-government groups, will invoke her constitutional right not to testify before Congress, according to a letter from her lawyer.