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The Internal Auditing and Assurance Standards Board has proposed new standards outlining an external auditor’s responsibilities when using internal auditors’ work during an audit.

The Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation division has stepped up its prosecutions of tax preparers in Southern California.

Actor Sean Connery is being shaken, not stirred, by a tax fraud investigation in Spain.

Pennsylvania regional accounting firm Reinsel Kuntz Lesher LLP plans to expand to York, Pa., by merging in Philip R. Friedman & Associates.

AccountMate Software Corp. has released AccountMate 8.0 for SQL and Express software, which incorporates over 100 enhancements and an entirely new module in the accounting software.

Forty-two percent of those between the ages of 30 and 44 are looking for career growth and change, according to a study analyzing degree search behavior sponsored by EducationDynamics, a company that works with higher learning institutions to help find, enroll and retain students.

Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, the recently appointed chairman of the board of trustees of the International Accounting Standards Committee Foundation, which oversees the International Accounting Standards Board, is worried about the U.S. backing out of the convergence effort.

Last week was rough for the Bronx Bombers.

Haskell & White has promoted three managers from within the organization, further strengthening the firm’s tax and audit and business advisory teams.

KPMG LLP has appointed new executives to head its tax and audit practices in the U.S.