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A prominent securities attorney told a group of CPAs that they will face a rising tide of enforcement actions and litigation next year.

The American Institute of CPAs has published a set of technical practice aids to help auditors and preparers understand the accounting rules on determining the fair value of investments in entities that calculate a net asset value.

Jean Stephens has been leading RSM International as the global accounting firm network saw two of its most prominent members, RSM McGladrey and McGladrey & Pullen, embroiled in a recently settled legal skirmish over their longstanding administrative services agreement.

The Treasury Department said a new protocol amending the income tax treaty with France has entered into force.

Business consulting and internal audit firm Protiviti has begun publishing “Board Perspectives: Risk Oversight,” a new monthly newsletter aimed at corporate boards of directors.

An interesting blog post came to myattention the other day – one that claims that more experienced staff need to “parent”the younger professionals within a firm. (Insert groan here).

The Maryland/Washington D.C./DelawareAssociation for Accounting Marketing Chapter is offering a handful of webinarsfor the upcoming year –focusing on, you guessed it, marketing.

IMGCAP(1)]Ask many accounting firms why the door to their server room isn’t closed and you’ll get an all too common response of “it gets too darned hot in there.” And, with the ever-increasing pressure being placed upon CPA firms by the state regulatory controls, it’s soon to get a lot hotter.

Former UBS banker Bradley Birkenfeld is ready to give prosecutors and the IRS more information about the Swiss bank’s secretive operations in an effort to further postpone his prison sentence.

Law firms representing shareholders of Comverse Technology have reached a settlement stemming from the alleged stock option backdating practices of the former directors and officers of the communications technology company.