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CCH executives plan to begin visiting CPA firms and organizations around the country to find out what tools and services the firms need to succeed.

A group of Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee have introduced a bill to extend 100 percent bonus depreciation through 2012 to encourage capital investments and job growth.

Mark Whitacre, the corporate whistleblower who exposed a price-fixing scandal at Archer Daniels Midland in the 1990s, told a group of fraud examiners that his wife was the person who convinced him to go to the FBI.

Social accounting involves using new collaboration tools inspired by social networks to connect and engage in a business context.

Securities and Exchange Commission Chief Accountant James L. Kroeker will leave his post in July to enter the private sector.

The IRS kicked off its series of forums in Orlando, Fla, on Tuesday with over 2,500 attendees. The three-day forums, held each year, cover a range of tax compliance and administrative topics, and feature speakers from academia and the private sector, as well as from the IRS.

Top 100 Firm Gallina LLP announced that it will merge with Seattle-based firm Merrill Carlson PLLC, effective July 1.

Top 100 Firm Marcum LLP has launched a new Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender and Non-Traditional Family Practice Group, to help LGBT and non-traditional individuals and families navigate changing tax and financial laws.

Nonprofit-focused accounting software maker Blackbaud Inc. today unveiled its Accountant Referral Program, which is designed to provide software incentives and additional resources to accountants that choose to refer the company's The Financial Edge fund accounting product to their nonprofit clients.