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Let’s face it, the accounting industry is changing and related conferences need to do likewise. Some of them are, for sure, but there simply has to be more than the lure of CPE.

Mike Karlins, a partner at the Woodlands, Texas-based CPA firm Karlins & Ramey LLC, was recently accepted into membership of Construction Industry CPAs/Consultants Association by executive director John Corcoran in Chicago during CICPAC’s recent annual conference.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has added two new projects to its agenda aimed at improving financial reporting by not-for-profit organizations.

A bipartisan group of 10 senators introduced legislation Wednesday that would give states the option to collect the sales taxes they are owed under current law from out-of-state businesses, rather than rely on consumers to pay those taxes to the states.

Denver-based accounting and business consulting firm Ehrhardt Keefe Steiner & Hottman was recognized as one of the “25 Best Medium-Sized Companies to Work for in America” by the Great Place to Work Institute and Entrepreneur magazine.

AccountMate Software Corp.’s enterprise resource planning software now integrates with Accelerated Payment Technologies’ X-Charge secure payment processing services to provide automated credit card processing.

The Internal Revenue Service has not collected delinquent taxes in a sampling of nearly half the past-due tax cases left over from its discontinued private debt collection program, according to a new government report.

Keeping pace with evolving customer needs and growth represents the greatest challenge for Sage North America right now, according to the company’s executive vice president of product and marketing strategy, Himanshu Palsule.

Japanese camera and medical device maker Olympus is facing questions over its efforts to cover up investment losses for about 20 years.

With only two weeks to go before a November 23 deadline, the congressional “supercommittee” of 12 that has been negotiating over cutting the budget deficit is now considering some far-reaching tax reform proposals.