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The Center for Audit Quality has re-elected four members of its governing board.

Bernard Madoff’s former accountant David Friehling pleaded not guilty to fraud charges.

The Internal Revenue Service cannot easily keep track of the activities of paid tax preparers, nor of their compliance with tax laws, according to a new report by the Treasury Inspector of Tax Administration.

Seven in ten Americans ages 45-74 say they plan to work in retirement or never retire, according to AARP. In stark contradiction to the single paradigm of “retirement” as an end to work, older Americans are redesigning the whole notion of life and work.

Earl Weaver, the long-time manager for the BaltimoreOrioles, was an irascible, compact man, who was wont to splice in an expletiveor two particularly when questioning an umpire's judgment.

IRS agent Albert Bront threatened to kill a group of U.S. Treasury agents when they tried to search his home earlier this week.

The task of making financial reporting simpler and more useful isn’t so simple as one might hope, according to several influential accounting officials who met to discuss the problem.

A meeting at the AICPA offices earlier today of the Global Accounting Alliance featured some spirited debate over the growing complexity of financial reporting and how it can be made simpler and more useful.

Universal Business Computing Co. is offering “pay as you go” workers compensation insurance to all of the company’s payroll service clients through a partnership with Cennarius.

The Institute of Management Accountants has created a social network that has attracted over 2,300 members since it launched about a month ago.