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Three Republican lawmakers who chair key congressional committees and subcommittees related to tax policy have sent a letter to Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen asking about the IRS’s recent efforts to gain more information about users of Coinbase, the largest Bitcoin exchange in the U.S.

The Center for Audit Quality and the American Accounting Association’s Auditing Section have picked three new academic research projects to support by giving researchers access to audit practitioners.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has issued an accounting standards update for determining the customer of service concession arrangements.

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H&R Block’s use of IBM’s Watson technology this past tax season is only one sign of the increasing involvement of artificial intelligence in tax preparation, with even Big Four firms like PricewaterhouseCoopers making major investments in AI for servicing their tax clients.

The valuation profession has gone through many changes since the introduction of fair value measurements in 2001, and the development of a new credential will help unify the valuation profession.

Condoleezza Rice, Michelle Kwan, and more will join the Big Four firm's third annual event for female professionals.

The American Institute of CPAs has sent a list of six tax regulations to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin that it wants the Treasury Department to review under an executive order from President Trump calling for reducing overly burdensome tax regulations.

The Governmental Accounting Standards Board has issued guidance for state and local governments to use when they extinguish debt before it matures.

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President Trump has nominated David Kautter, partner-in-charge of the Washington National Tax practice of RSM US, as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy.

The IFRS Foundation has signed a memorandum of understanding with the World Bank to help developing countries use International Financial Reporting Standards.

Grant Thornton International has named Peter Bodin, the former CEO of Grant Thornton Sweden, as CEO-elect, succeeding Edward Nusbaum, who will retire at the end of the year.

The tool is designed to solve two problems with traditional reports: Distribution and collaboration.

The tool helps companies calculate and comply with country-specific taxation rules that change often.

PricewaterhouseCoopers’ firm in the United Kingdom was fined a record £5 million ($6.4 million) by the U.K.’s Financial Reporting Council for its audits of Connaught, a social housing maintenance business that collapsed in 2010.

CohnReznick establishes Netherlands-based European subsidiary; Armanino continues annual Nonprofit Symposium; and more news from CPA offices across the country.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board is asking for comments on how effective its U.S. GAAP Financial Reporting Taxonomy really is.

CPAs and their business clients and corporate tax departments need to consider different scenarios for the possible corporate tax reforms now being weighed in Congress.

The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board has overhauled its board structure, adding a nine-member SASB Standards Board, overseen by the SASB Foundation board of directors.