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Accounting Today began its third annual Growth & Profitability Summit on Sunday with a pair of entertaining keynote speeches by CPAs Gene Marks and Anthony Reed.

Despite a challenging job market, the unemployment rate for senior accountants and auditors is a relatively low 4.1 percent, according to Robert Half Finance & Accounting.

Papers, papers and still more papers. When can I destroy these tax documents?

CCH Small Firm Services has wrapped up its inaugural user conference, with more than 150 attendees spending two days focusing on the ways that changes in laws, professional requirements and technology are impacting tax and accounting.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board is currently in the midst of disciplinary proceedings against 19 auditing firms, and the PCAOB is considering ending the registrations of up to 870 firms that have not been auditing public companies or broker-dealers, according to a PCAOB official.

The IRS is warning about a new tax scam that uses a Web site that mimics the IRS e-Services online registration page.

Members of online community iShade would give the current Congress an “F,” according to a recent survey in which a majority of the group’s accounting professionals issued the failing grade.

A Santa Barbara-based CPA who claimed on his Web site that he has appeared as a tax and financial expert on national television shows was convicted by a federal jury on charges that he underreported more than $1 million by pretending that his accounting income had been earned by his nonprofit foundation for providing “marital counseling.”

Nearly two-thirds of accountants gave Congress a grade of F in a recent survey.

Individual retirement account allocations tend to vary by age and account balance, but not much by gender, according to a new study.