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Hiring and wages at small businesses ticked upward slightly last month despite the ongoing economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic.

The annual program provides up to $10,000 and an internship to 10 diverse accounting students pursuing the CPA license.

Germany wants to bolster the expertise at its top financial regulator to prevent a repeat of the Wirecard scandal that exposed significant cracks in the country’s oversight.

A major merger with another Top 100 Firm put it far in the lead.

Almost two-thirds of practitioners said that pushing filing to July 15 last year was good for them.

The Small Business Administration issued some preliminary guidance on how a new federal program to provide help to hard-hit playhouses, movie theaters, museums and other venues will work.

As Black History Month begins, a number of prominent accounting organizations — including the AICPA, Illinois CPA Society, and the National Association of Black Accountants — have joined together in announcing a new yearlong diversity program.

The chairs of corporate audit committees want to hear more regularly from auditors, but they’re also concerned about “over-auditing” and “over-documentation,” according to the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.

The European Union is seeking to overturn Apple Inc.’s victory in a 13 billion-euro ($15.7 billion) tax dispute, saying judges used “contradictory reasoning” when they found that the company’s Irish units weren’t liable for huge payments.

The Association of International Certified Professional Accountants has also acquired MACPA’s Business Learning Institute.

From the delayed stat to a rush of new legislation and an overloaded IRS, a host of issues are combining to make tax filing even more difficult than usual.

The Internal Revenue Service is clarifying its guidance on provisions of the coronavirus relief legislation providing tax credits to employers offering paid sick leave and family leave to workers.

Small businesses in Nebraska, Oklahoma and other rural states have been the most successful at getting federal pandemic relief in the $284 billion round of aid that opened this month, buoyed by a new rule that authorizes loans to many farms that didn’t qualify before.

The Internal Revenue Service is advising taxpayers who received a Form 1099-G for unemployment benefits they never got to contact their state because their identity may have been stolen.

The coronavirus pandemic has hit revenues at most companies around the world, but almost none of them feel that they're lagging behind their competitors.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board released an accounting standards update Thursday, giving franchisors a practical expedient way to determine their performance obligations under a franchise agreement.

Colleges and universities that changed from for-profit businesses into tax-exempt nonprofits are prompting questions about the continuing involvement of former owners and officials.

U.S. officials responsible for preparing for a pandemic routinely raided funds for public health emergencies, diverting money from vaccine development to pay for other projects at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, a federal watchdog said Wednesday.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Wednesday talked with her U.K. and German counterparts about resolving mushrooming disputes over the taxation of internet giants such as Facebook Inc., highlighting the issue as a priority in her initial bilateral calls.

The year ahead will be full of tax uncertainties in the U.S. and internationally, ranging from digital taxes and carbon taxes to possible tax hikes under the Biden administration.