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The Internal Revenue Service has added two new appeals programs for taxpayers who are disputing IRS actions.

The National Conference of CPA Practitioners reelected sole practitioner Karen Giunta of Hicksville, N.Y., to a second term as president of the organization.

December's a perfect time for accountants to check their lists twice to make sure they have all their bases covered before busy season starts cranking.

When his grandmother died, a teenage son emailed his dad to say he was sorry for his loss.

Washington, D.C. — Okay, I want to be clear on this.

The Internal Revenue Service said that taxpayers who make qualifying cash contributions for disaster relief efforts in the Midwest are able to benefit from a recently passed law that suspends the percentage-of-income limits that would normally apply when taxpayers deduct the contributions on their 2008 federal tax returns.

Perquest has introduced a bilingual feature that allows Spanish-speaking and English-speaking employees to view their payroll information online in their native language.

When Peter Sheahan took the stage at CCH's user conference this fall, he knew many of the Boomer accountants in the audience were going to flat-out hate him.Fresh out of high school in 1998, Sheehan started working for what was then Coopers & Lybrand (now PwC) in his home country of Australia.

Securities and Exchange Commission Chief Accountant Conrad Hewitt intends to leave the agency in January.

XBRL US plans to soon publish an upgraded version of the Extensible Business Reporting Language interactive data tags for U.S. generally accepted accounting principles and is making the latest draft available for public review.