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The International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board has issued a practice alert to help auditors and management assess the impact of the credit crisis on going-concern assumptions.

TaxTalent has introduced a new contract-staff Web site, TaxForce.com, aiming to match the top 20 percent of tax professionals with companies in need of their high-level services.

KPMG has named a new chief information officer and a new leader of its tax restructuring and corporate recovery practice.

In the bleariness of the morning off-to-work routine, the news of the breach of information about hundreds of millions of debit cards was accompanied by an analysis that said the intruder’s software was light years ahead of that of Heartland Payment Systems.

The House has approved legislation to close loopholes and provide more transparency in the controversial Troubled Assets Relief Program.

An increasing number of companies are promoting social responsibility in the form of volunteering in their local communities. One of the Big Four accounting firms is giving high school accounting students a chance to help the United Way with what they learned in class. Read more on the Accounting Tomorrow blog.

Coming back from Washington D.C. for Barack Obama's historic inauguration validated what I already knew about this election: the youth most definitely rocked the vote. Read more on the Accounting Tomorrow blog.

George Klaus, who served as president and CEO of Epicor Software from February 1996 to February 2008, has been named to those positions again, following the resignation of Thomas F. Kelly.

Sage North America has updated its Sage FAS Fixed Assets Software with the latest tax rules, rates and Internal Revenue Service forms.

Florida plans to cut the amount of time it takes to process exam scores for CPAs by more than half, reducing what had been a three-month process to less than a month.