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The Institute of Certified Management Accountants, the certification division of the Institute for Management Accountants, launched the new simplified Chinese language version of its two-part Certified Management Accountant exam.

Chief financial officers and investors have increased their support for global accounting standards since the start of the economic crisis in 2008, according to an international survey published Thursday by the global Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.

Rafael Nadal will not play in the traditional Wimbledon tennis tournament warm-up event next year because of stringent British tax laws, according to the Associated Press.

Men can stand out with their apparel and accessories and make an impact on their clients and prospects.

Following a scathing report by the Center for Public integrity, which revealed that the Department of Defense lacks any mechanism to shows how the billions in taxpayer dollars are spent, the agency pledged to clean up its accounting practices by 2017.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board announced Thursday that it had permanently barred a Denver-based audit partner and permanently revoked the registration of a registered public accounting firm because the audit partner had participated in audits while subject to a previous bar.

As with most legislation, the recently derailed American Jobs Act included some good ideas, some bad, and some that were mere political posturing. But now that it has been defeated in the Senate, the focus is on what parts of it might survive in separate future pieces of legislation.

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