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Registration, testing and continuing education are at the core of the requirements proposed by the Internal Revenue Service in response to calls for greater oversight of paid tax preparers.

Jackson Hewitt has signed an amended agreement with Republic Bank & Trust to act as a partner for refund anticipation loans after the tax prep chain’s previous partner, Santa Barbara Bank & Trust, was forced to stop providing RALs.

BDO Seidman is shortening its name to BDO, joining 115 other member firms of the BDO International network around the world in the rebranding movement.

Southeast regional accounting firm Carr Riggs & Ingram has combined with New Orleans-based Roth Murphy Sanford, expanding CRI’s footprint to six states.

With 2010 upon us, as well as a new decade, it seems a good time to ask what you plan to do differently or better this year. Everyone talks about New Year’s resolutions, but what are you going to do in your firm to start a cultural (and peaceful) revolution?

While working at my college newspaper, a nervous freshmanambled into the small office one afternoon to apply for one of the openeditorial posts.

Wishing all our readers a very happy and healthy New Year! We look forward to the next decade and all the generational change it will bring.

Not only is the U.S. Senate leery of passing a carbon tax, but apparently the idea is also running aground in both France and the state of Minnesota.

The Microsoft Business Solutions group is advising customers to be aware of changes to European Union value-added tax law that will take effect Jan. 1, 2010.

At Grant Thornton LLP’s Annual Partners Meeting in November, the partners and principals elected Chicago-based audit partner Jeff Robinson to the firm’s Partnership Board.