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The concept of Client Relationship Management (CRM) is starting to gain momentum in the tax and accounting profession. And if you ask several accounting professionals, you will get many different answers about what CRM “means.”

A college classmate of mine and an unabashed Europhile often lectured on how many of the famous and popular trends throughout history - whether in clothing styles, literature, art, cuisine or automobile design - inevitably began in Europe before gradually making their way across the Atlantic.

The Tax & Accounting business of Thomson Reuters has acquired San Francisco-based Web design company Emochila for an undisclosed sum.

Staffing company Experis is predicting that SEC reporting will be one of the hot job skills for 2012.

The Internal Revenue Service released on Friday the optional standard mileage rates that business taxpayers can use in 2012 to figure the deductible costs of operating a vehicle for business, charitable, medical or moving purposes, and for the most part they have not changed a great deal.

Olympus has until December 14 to fix its financial statements in the wake of a high-profile accounting scandal if the camera maker wants to retain its listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

Small business software developer Acclivity has released AccountEdge Pro 2012, its small business accounting software for Mac and Windows, which features a redesigned command center, mileage tracking, and the ability to create multiple billing rates.

The American Institute of CPAs and two Brazilian accounting organizations have signed a two-year agreement paving the way for the CPA Exam to be offered in South America next year.

House Republicans introduced their version of a payroll tax cut extension bill on Friday, a day after competing Republican and Democratic versions of payroll tax cut legislation failed for the second time to advance in the Senate.

A pro-business lobbying group is disputing the claims in a recently released report that found some of the most profitable corporations avoiding billions of dollars in state taxes.