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From week to week, we see occasional reports that banks aren’t lending to businesses, and that businesses can’t get the money they need to grow and to create jobs. Whether that’s true remains a little murky, but frankly, I worry more about businesses borrowing too much money.

Joanne S. Barry, executive director of the New York State Society of CPAs, has been named the 2012 Outstanding Association Executive by the New York Society of Association Executives

Recent firm alliances, memberships, charitable activities and more.

Recent accounting firm hires, promotions, awards and more.

A new study calls into question the position of forensic accounting professional organizations and says they more properly should be labeled “corporations.”

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President Obama signed into law on Thursday the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, also known as the JOBS Act, which lowers the regulatory and auditing barriers for companies to seek funding and enter the capital markets.

The Internal Revenue Service is not making consistent use of the codes that are supposed to indicate which IRS enforcement actions have led to taxpayers paying their outstanding taxes due, according to a new government report.

I love a good deal, and when I can get something on sale, use a coupon, scan a QR code for a discount, or use points towards my purchase, it always improves my shopping experience.

Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Doug Shulman described in a speech Thursday how the agency is using information from its tax preparer regulation initiative to identify practitioners who are showing patterns of tax fraud.