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The Ohio Society of CPAs is teaming up with the U.S. Department of Labor to improve the quality of audits of employee benefit plans in the Buckeye State.

Some of the president’s staunchest supporters in Congress and the tech business seemed taken aback by his plans to crack down on offshore corporate tax havens, but they shouldn’t have been surprised.

In a year that is projected to record a high number of CPA firm mergers, a pair of managing partners told attendees at the AICPA Practitioners Symposium here that both parties should be prepared to navigate through changes in culture and processes that often complicate the consolidation process.

Local accounting firms Conner Ash and the SPS Group CPAs met in St. Louis, danced the hoochee koochee, became each other’s tootsee wootsie, and have now announced a merger.

CPA firm Mize, Houser & Co. has teamed up with software developer Star Americas Software Solutions to offer a practice management program aimed at midsized to large accounting firms.

Accountants need to be proactive in protecting themselves and their firms from liability and malpractice claims, particularly in the wake of the legal fallout from the Bernie Madoff scheme and similar high-profile scandals, where auditors have become a litigation target for burned investors.

The former director of finance for packaging-machine maker Winpak Lane’s California office has pled guilty to tax and embezzlement charges.

BDO International has Georgia on its mind, but not necessarily the Georgia you might be thinking of.

We already know that CPAs are cool and go beyond the stereotype of number-crunchers and anal-retentive geeks. Karen O'Connor-Joyner a full-time CPA in Fairfax, Va., is a shining example of this.

1. Between 2002 and mid 2008, CPA firms enjoyed one of the biggest booms in the profession’s history. Business was so good that most firms stopped proactive marketing because they couldn’t handle any more business.