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Washington, D.C.-based CPA firm Martin & Wall has joined with Milwaukee-based Chortek & Gottschalk, becoming a division of C&G.

XBRL US has launched the XBRL Challenge, a contest to uncover the first generation of open source analytic tools that will mine financial data in ways never before possible.

Tim Bergstrom, CPA, has been named partner-in-charge of the Aberdeen office of Top 100 Firm Eide Bailly LLP.

The Internal Revenue Service plans to send letters to approximately 100,000 tax return preparers who it said Tuesday failed to follow its new registration requirements.

New York-based Top 100 Firm EisnerAmper has created a new Consulting Services Group.

The New York State Society of CPAs’ Foundation of Accounting Education and Pace University recently toasted to the 25th anniversary of the Career Opportunities in the Accounting Profession (COAP) program.

Congressman John Tierney, D-Mass., has introduced a bill that would eliminate about 27 different tax expenditures, including tax breaks for energy companies.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has issued for public comment a set of proposed audit and attestation standards for audit engagements of broker-dealers.

A federal requirement that the tax returns of large corporations be filed and processed electronically has resulted in cost savings to the corporations and the government, according to a new government report.