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When you’re good, you’re good. LeighAnn H. Costley has been named one of Atlanta Business Chronicle’s 40 Under 40 Rising Stars for 2009 – and considering she just joined the firm’s Atlanta’s office in August to launch its new Southeast Tax Practice Group, we think that’s pretty great.

The prospect of the enactment of a value-added tax in the United States is getting closer – five years and counting, according to a Tax Governance Institute survey.

Key leaders in the House are reconsidering a provision in a bill that would exempt small and midsized companies from Sarbanes-Oxley audit requirements.

The American Institute of CPAs joined with over a dozen other accounting organizations around the world to call for a single standard for climate change reporting.

James Leisenring, a member of the International Accounting Standards Board, told attendees at an accounting conference in New York to disregard the board’s recently issued standard for recognizing and measuring financial instruments, acknowledging that political pressures had forced the board to publish the standard.

McGladrey & Pullen’s partners have voted to accept a revised services agreement that would reunite them with H&R Block subsidiary RSM McGladrey.

The House approved the Tax Extenders Act of 2009, with extensions of a number of tax breaks that are scheduled to expire at the end of the year, including the R&D credit.

Marci Leigh Butterfield instructs – on average – 300 students each semester and is noted for knowing each of her students by name within the second week of class. This is just one of the reasons the University of Utah David Eccles School of Business assistant professor has been recognized by the American Woman’s Society of Certified Public Accountants Educator of the Year.

IMGCAP(1)]Answer this question: What kind of leader are you?

Former SEC commissioner Harvey Goldschmid has been appointed to succeed one of the retiring trustees of the International Accounting Standards Committee Foundation, the organization that oversees the International Accounting Standards Board.