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During a roundtable discussion revealing top issues in its advisory services practice, Big Four firm PricewaterhouseCoopers talked about how change and current market trends are transforming its clients' needs.

Accounting firm Goodman & Co. lost a jury verdict on one claim after it was sued by an investor for aiding and abetting a breach of fiduciary duty by Goodman's client Telos.

The House passed a new version of its patch for the alternative minimum tax that eliminates a controversial provision to raise taxes on the carried interest earnings of managers of private equity firms and hedge funds.

A former Internal Revenue Service agent has pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court to engaging in a scheme in which he attempted to sell to other taxpayers the purported tax losses of a company he owned, as well as use them on his own individual tax returns.

The Internal Revenue Service said that payments under the Department of Veterans Affairs' Compensated Work Therapy (CWT) program are no longer taxable and disabled veterans who paid tax on these benefits in the past three years can now claim refunds.

Vertex introduced its Vertex O Series Retail Solution, which provides sales tax calculations across various channels, including brick-and-mortar stores, Web sites and catalogs.

There is a very strong message in the movie thriller, “Silence of the Lambs” and I’m not talking about the one about how serial killers who devour their victims are not nice people, even if they top off the meal with a bottle of Chianti. It is the message about how Jodie Foster’s character, Clarice, deals with a non-stop set of male characters deal with her as a woman first, and a law enforcement professional second, if at all. This includes everything from men hitting on her to a striking scene in which she is the only woman in an elevator with much taller men.

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SEC Chairman Christopher Cox told the House Small Business Committee that he planned to propose a one-year delay in imposing Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 requirements for small public companies to audit their internal controls.

The Securities and Exchange Commission plans to host two roundtable discussions this month on International Financial Reporting Standards.