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The American Institute of CPAs is helping to promote a movie on the financial challenges facing the U.S. today.

SpeedTax introduced an online CPA Questionnaire that allows accounting professionals to determine their clients' sales tax audit risk.

The Internal Revenue Service released its summer 2008 Statistics of Income Bulletin, featuring tax year 2005 data on the growth of profits and tax liability at foreign-controlled domestic corporations.

Accounting firm Citrin Cooperman has appointed longtime partner F. Wayne Holton CEO.

A recent study on corporate tax payments has been making waves on the Internet and in Washington in the past week.

The Securities and Exchange Commission unveiled its next-generation system for online financial filings, IDEA, the successor to its EDGAR database.

A group representing financial executives has written to the Financial Accounting Standards Board asking to exempt private companies from the requirements of FASB Interpretation No. 48, "Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes."

I write the "M&A" update box in Practical Accountant's Profession Watch section, and one of the details we give for firms recently merged or acquired is "Niches/Concentrations."

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has issued its latest inspection report on KPMG, listing deficiencies in several sample audits conducted by the firm.

Rodefer Moss & Co. plans to merge with Melhiser Endres Tucker, expanding the firm from its Tennessee base into Indiana and Kentucky.