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Financial Accounting Standards Board Chairman Robert Herz refuses to accept the inevitability of another financial system collapse.

Accounting firm Plante & Moran plans to merge with Jackson, Rolfes, Spurgeon & Co., extending Michigan-based Plante to the Cincinnati market.

Former investment manager Bernard Madoff was sentenced to the maximum term of 150 years in prison for running a Ponzi scheme estimated to have totaled $65 billion.

Global risk and internal audit consulting concern Protiviti Inc. has released Governance Portal version 3, a governance, risk and compliance application.

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I recently returned from Las Vegas from the AICPA Information Technology show - an annual affirmation of my complete lack of understanding of things that incorporate SIM cards or blade servers.

JustSystems has introduced xfy XBRL Report, a desktop application that allows users to view, explore and report on multidimensional Extensible Business Reporting Language data.

A new analysis by a former high-ranking IRS official explains how the Tax Code’s corporate reorganization provisions afford tax-free treatment to certain corporate combinations and realignments.

The recently named chair of the California Society of CPAs argued that the profession needs to attract more minority CPAs as the society celebrates its centennial.

A software company has introduced a “mind-mapping” product that tries to help accountants synthesize information better and communicate it in a way that businesses can understand.