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The owner of a jewelry store who received confidential information from a former KPMG partner about audit clients has pleaded guilty to insider trading charges.

CPA-focused liability insurance provider Camico reported its third straight year of gains in policyholder surplus and net income on Monday.

Several hundred members of the National Treasury Employees Union are planning a rally at 26 Federal Plaza in New York City to call for an end to sequestration and protest unpaid furlough days for Internal Revenue Service employees and a planned shutdown of IRS services for the public.

A strange story of bureaucratic overzealousness emerged in Florida last week when a local media outlet reported that a Jacksonville man had his tax refund cut by $895 because the Social Security Administration found it had overpaid his now-deceased mother by that amount 42 years ago.

Congress’s Joint Committee on Taxation has released a report summarizing various provisions of the Tax Code and suggestions that were sent to House Ways and Means Committee working groups tasked with various aspects of tax reform.

The Internal Revenue Service has published 2010 statistics on foreign trusts indicating an an increasing interest in foreign investment by U.S. taxpayers, and the impact of changes made in 1996 to information reporting requirements.

I would be willing to bet that you have asked more of your people to participate in the marketing and sales process. However, without the right tools, ANY project is more frustrating and less effective that it needs to be.

A recent survey of CPA firms identified marketing and business development as among the most important management issues facing these establishments.

CFOs who are hiring accounting and finance staff are looking beyond accounting skills, according to a new survey.

Julie Vadnais is the new chief operating officer of Lavine, Lofgren, Morris & Engelberg LLP. Vadnais succeeds Bob Hasse who went on to work as a principal at RGHasse Consulting.