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Craig Klein has been elected managing director of CBIZ Tofias.

The American Institute of CPAs has published a book on how the top 100 international public companies use International Financial Reporting Standards as U.S. accounting standards converge slowly toward IFRS.

Accounting Today now has a digital edition. Click here to check out the digital edition of the Feb. 15-March 14 issue.

Senate Finance Committee leaders publicly released a draft Thursday of the widely anticipated jobs bill they plan to introduce, including payroll tax provisions and the extension of a number of tax breaks that expired last year.

Intuit is offering more than $100,000 in grants to small businesses, including accounting firms, as part of a sweepstakes competition aimed at promoting appreciation of local businesses in communities across the U.S.

New York City has launched a free Web-based tax preparation and electronic filing service that is available to all residents who earn less than $58,000.

A new Canadian workplace study focusing on leadership reiterates the obvious – when leadership is good, it can be very very good and when it’s bad – watch out.

IMGCAP(1)]How can we educate, monitor and begin to positively affect ethical behavior in business organizations? Publicly reporting failures, regulating actions, and punishing violators may have an impact, but these actions follow ethical lapses. We need prevention, not treatment after failure.

The Senate has unanimously approved a bill that would prevent small businesses from incurring large tax penalties aimed at large corporations and wealthy individuals who invest in tax shelters.

The Maryland Association of CPAs has produced a romantic, but comical YouTube video using animated characters from Second Life singing a song with the lyrics, “If I were an auditor, and you were a lady.”