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Fifth graders at Brecksville-Broadview Heights Central School are getting a special treat from local CPAs today – they’re going to play the stock market and learn the risks and rewards of real-life investing.

IMGCAP(1)]Opaque financial instruments that banks and insurance companies have created and misrepresented, and that were blamed for the current recession, seem to call for greater transparency. But what exactly is transparency? How is it done? Does it work?

CCH has added Smart Charts, checklists and decision trees to its Business Entity Planning Library to provide further guidance to tax practitioners analyzing and comparing the entities used by small- and midsized businesses.

Smith Elliott Kearns & Company, LLC SAID it will be represented in 2010 on six PKF North American Network National Committees.

Shwiff, Levy & Polo, a boutique CPA firm in San Francisco, has listed its top five tips for small business owners to help them avoid an IRS audit.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has disallowed a “midco” tax shelter, becoming the first appellate court to disallow one.

The American Institute of CPAs has filed a lawsuit against the Federal Trade Commission challenging the applicability of the so-called “Red Flags Rule” to CPAs.

Accounting firm WebsterRogers LLP has signed a deal to combine its Mergers & Acquisitions Group with Sequence Investment Partners, a licensed broker-dealer.