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Los Angeles accounting firm Furness & Associates Accountancy Corporation has recently created a new Web site for the firm.

The foundation of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants announced today that it awarded $254,500 to 92 recipients of the AICPA Scholarship for Minority Accounting Students for the 2010-11 academic year.

Chicago-area accounting firm Silver Lerner Schwartz & Fertel has joined AGN-North America, an association of independent CPA and consulting firms.

The Internal Revenue Service has selected 10 new members for its Information Reporting Program Advisory Committee and another 10 members and a chairman for its IRS Advisory Council.

The Internal Revenue Service has introduced IRS2Go, its first smartphone application that lets taxpayers check on the status of their tax refund and obtain helpful tax information.

Cleveland-based Cohen & Co. announced that it has named two new partners — Kim Palmer in the Tax Department and Paul Gregory in the Accounting and Auditing Department — as well as a number of promotions.

With the 2010 e-file mandate just around the corner, I am amazed at the number of CPAs who will be filing electronically for the first time.

Students from Purdue University North Central tax and accounting classes are offering free help to the public in preparing federal and state income tax returns.

Just to preface this upcoming viewpoint, I in no way am endorsing or have been funded by a particular product vendor, but there comes a time when you can sit on the sidelines only so long without stating the obvious.

Verizon said Friday it would change its method of accounting for pensions and other post-employment benefits, using something akin to mark-to-market accounting, the same type of accounting that has been criticized for the financial crisis and the implosion of Enron.