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CPA and business advisory firm White, Nelson & Co announced that it would merge with Orange County practice Diehl, Evans & Co., effective December 1.

Most long-time accounting professionals have at least one folklore-type story to tell.

IMGCAP(1)]If you ask most CEOs of both public and private companies where risk lies, the answer will nearly always concern macro issues—the U.S. and world economy, government tax policy, the federal deficit.

The Internal Revenue Service could improve its exchange of tax compliance information with other countries by collecting better data on the types of information requested and how successfully it was collected.

Fresh on the heels of a redesign of its Web site, the Internal Revenue Service said Friday it is also updating its Transcript Delivery System.

A new report from a task force led by the International Federation of Accountants urges greater acceptance of globally accepted high-quality international standards for financial reporting, auditing, valuation and actuarial services and other regulations, to restore the proper functioning of the financial markets.

The New Jersey Society of CPAs said Friday that a number of candidates for the CPA Exam in New Jersey have had their applications rejected by CPA Examination Services because of confusion over whether they had met the necessary education requirements.

The American Institute of CPAs is asking the Internal Revenue Service to reconsider some of the fees it plans to charge for competency exams and fingerprinting as part of its tax preparer oversight program.

The unemployment rate remained stuck at 9.1 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday, despite the addition of 103,000 jobs.

Inc. magazine named Ohio regional CPA firm Cohen & Company to its 2011 Inc. 5000 list of the nation’s fastest-growing companies.