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The AICPA Council voted Monday to approve a joint venture with the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants to create a new credential for management accountants internationally.

Thomas McLaughlin has joined the Boston office of CCR LLP as a principal in the Assurance Services Department, where he will focus on the nonprofit industry, advising on mergers and alliances, nonprofit financial management, and organizational restructuring.

Thomson Reuters has unveiled the latest release of Mobile CS, the mobile app that links Practice CS to the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.

Any accountant that has ever dealt with the IRS knows it’s typically not a smooth process.

Recent graduates feel mixed about the financial value of college, according to Fidelity Investments’ recent Cost-Conscious College Graduates Survey, which studied how class of 2009, 2010 and 2011 graduates are faring in terms of college debt levels and securing jobs.

You can follow Accounting Today’s and Accounting Tomorrow’s coverage of the American Institute of CPAs Spring Meeting of Council conference in Washington, D.C. on our Twitter pages: @Accounting Today, @ATomorrow and @WebCPAtweets, with tweeting by editors Danielle Lee and Michael Cohn.

The American Institute of CPAs kicked off its 2011 Spring Meeting of Council on Sunday with a discussion of the Institute’s legislative priorities.

IMGCAP(1)]I remember the day when I was at a local Starbucks with William Shakespeare and he leaned over his Caramel Frappuccino and said to me, “Nick, all the world’s a stage.”

Careless workers need not apply, according to a recent Accountemps survey in which 41 percent of interviewed chief financial officers said lacking attention to detail and presenting sloppy work are the coworker behaviors that annoy them most.

Sage North America value-added reseller Mindover Software has signed a merger agreement with another Sage VAR, San Antonio-based Network Services Inc.