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Financial-crisis-related class-action lawsuits declined last year, according to a new study.

Grant Thornton has released the fifth edition of its Audit Committee Handbook, with new chapters on audit planning and oversight, fraud risk and broader international coverage.

As the population ages and the Baby Boomer generation enters retirement, incidents of financial elder abuse are growing more common — and accountants need to be more vigilant than ever in looking after their clients’ interests, according to Randy Werner, a CPA and loss prevention specialist at professional liability insurer CAMICO.

Tea Party activists are planning an Online Tax Revolt that will send an army of avatars on a virtual march on Washington on Tax Day, April 15.

The Treasury Department and the Office of Management and Budget have opened a new office that will focus on improving financial management processes across the federal government.

IMGCAP(1)] Generational guru Rebecca Ryan of Next Generation Consulting is back with her popular “Ask Rebecca” column, this time offering up her advice every Monday for the month of April. In this installment, Rebecca answers a secrecy question from, gulp, a middle manager.

In the classic fish-out-of-water comedy, "My CousinVinny," Joe Pesci plays Vincent Gambini, a fumbling Brooklyn attorneyattempting to acquit two boys of a murder charge in a backwoods Alabama town.

Big Four Ernst & Young has revealed the three winning teams for its 2010 Your World, Your Vision college campus competition. And each team will be bringing home a chunk of change.

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the securities firm that agreed to buy the trading unit at Bernie Madoff’s old investment firm is quickly running into accounting headaches.

The International Federation of Accountants has released two downloadable handbooks containing its 2010 code of ethics for professional accountants and pronouncements on auditing, review and other assurance services.