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Senate Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., is laying out goals for tax reform as the expiration of the current tax rates looms at the end of the year.

In the opening keynote address to the annual American Institute of CPAs’ Practitioners Symposium and TECH+ Conference and the 2012 Association for Accounting Marketing Summit, author and marketing expert Sally Hogshead urged attendees to focus their marketing efforts on what sets them apart, and to understand themselves better in order to fascinate their clients and prospects.

I bet the whole world that we could find exciting, interesting accountants

With the hurricane season starting early this year, the Internal Revenue Service is encouraging individuals and businesses to follow a few steps to protect themselves against natural disasters.

A small city in the Chicago area has filed suit against an accounting firm that overlooked the embezzlement of over $50 million by the town’s former treasurer and controller.

A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling dismissing the complaint of a tax preparer who argued that the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service did not have the right to charge an annual fee for a Preparer Tax Identification Number.

Sage North America has released a mobile application to help members of the Sage Accountants Network keep up to date on Sage and industry issues.

I had the opportunity to learn how to shoot a semi-automatic AR-15 over Memorial Day weekend. I was definitely out of my comfort zone.

Michael Woodford, the former Olympus CEO who blew the whistle on accounting fraud at the Japanese camera and medical equipment maker, has received a settlement from the company of approximately $15.4 million.

CCH’s Taxes – The Tax Magazine, one of the profession’s oldest tax-centric magazines, is now available as an app for the iPad.