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The Securities and Exchange Commission plans to hold its inaugural roundtable in the Financial Reporting Series on “Measurement Uncertainty in Financial Reporting.”

Ernst & Young CPA Nick DeSanto went from audit to audition when he uploaded a video trying out for a guest role on the TV musical Glee.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has released two proposed accounting standards updates to clarify the criteria for investment company accounting and develop guidance for investment property accounting.

Across the U.S., there were 97 increases in state sales and use taxes, 96 new taxes and nine decreases in the third quarter of the year, according to a new report.

A California court has ruled that a lawsuit can proceed against the accounting firm Rothstein Kass, which has been sued by two hedge fund managers claiming that the firm never uncovered the fabricated trading activity of one of their business partners.

Greg Anton, the freshly minted chairman of the American Institute of CPAs, will have a full plate of issues to deal with as he starts his tenure, ranging from the fight for a private accounting standards board to the gala celebration marking the Institute’s 125th anniversary next year.

The IRS doesn’t make the laws, it just enforces them.

Unlike Texas Governor Rick Perry, I personally do spend time mulling over the immigration status of Mitt Romney's lawn care crew.

The Internal Revenue Service said Thursday that tax preparers can start renewing their Preparer Tax Identification Numbers for the 2012 tax-filing season.

The Internal Revenue Service may have paid $3.2 billion in erroneous American Opportunity Tax Credits during the first five months of 2010 to 2.1 million taxpayers, according to a new government report.