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From now through April 13, Intuit’s Accounting Professional Division will host a series on its Lacerte and ProSeries Live Community Web pages in which Intuit experts address customers’ product and general tax questions.

The International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board has released an exposure draft on financial discussion and analysis for public sector entities, proposing minimum required content.

The time available to spend with 1040-only clients is so limited, so compressed and so rushed, it can be hard to build a strong relationship. But, why would you?

A team from Hoover High School in Hoover, Ala., were crowned winners of the American Institute of CPAs’ Project Innovation: The Start Here, Go Places Competition of Creative Excellence, which challenged students to submit new feature ideas for the Start Here, Go Places website.

The Governmental Accounting Standards Board has issued two new accounting statements, one covering items previously reported as assets and liabilities, which clarified the appropriate reporting of deferred outflows and inflows of resources, and another statement containing technical corrections to resolve conflicting guidance.

The case of a wealthy U.S. businessman who pleaded guilty to evading taxes but then sued the Swiss bank where he hid his money is scheduled to go to trial on May 8, the first major test of civil legal challenges to Swiss banks that sold offshore private banking services to help Americans evade taxes.

Deloitte has acquired CRG Partners, expanding the firm’s financial restructuring, turnaround management and bankruptcy reorganization capabilities.

The United Kingdom is in an uproar over plans to slap a tax on freshly baked take-out foods, including the beloved Cornish pasty.

You have watched your newest hire work for their first 30 days and you are looking back at their great resume and 15 years of experience. All you can think is, “Does he really have 15 years of experience or just one year of experience 15 times?”

Columnists Miller & Bahnson on FASB's big opportunity to demonstrate its independence