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A chief accountability officer can improve the functioning of accounting firms.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has named Rebekah Goshorn Jurata, a special assistant to the president for financial policy on the White House’s National Economic Council.

The president, under siege from House Democrats weighing impeachment, suffered a stinging blow as a federal appeals court upheld a subpoena ordering his accountants to provide Congress with his financial records.

News organizations lost a bid to unseal a federal court filing from the company detailing the financial records it holds.

The Treasury Department and IRS issued proposed regulations to help taxpayers avoid negative tax consequences in the transition away from the London Interbank Offered Rate and other interbank rates to newer reference rates.

Uber passengers are asked to evaluate their ride as soon as they get out of the car, and the drivers are also asked to evaluate the riders immediately. This seems like it would be a good idea for accounting firms.

A federal appeals court delayed a federal judge’s ruling from taking effect that would have forced the president's accounting firm to hand the records to the Manhattan district attorney beginning Monday afternoon.

Treasury’s inspector general is investigating how the department handled a request from Congress to turn over President Donald Trump’s tax returns, which was rejected by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.

13 Democratic senators want more country-by-country information from companies.

The Taxpayer Protection and Preparer Proficiency Act of 2019 would give the IRS the authority to regulate practitioners.

Businesses would have to pay a tax based on the amount they spent to lobby the government.

Sens. Chuck Schumer and Ron Wyden think the organization's contacts with Russians raise questions.

Warren, Biden, Sanders and Harris

They say the political process is more appropriate than the courts.

When a new book was recently published about internal controls, I wondered about its benefits or use.

The plan would target companies would large gaps between workers' pay and executives' pay.

The president’s attorneys reached a temporary agreement with the office of Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance delaying the deadline for Mazars USA LLP, Trump’s accountants, to comply with a subpoena for his taxes and for other financial papers.

Senator Elizabeth Warren’s wealth tax proposal is big. Senator Bernie Sanders’ is about 60 percent bigger.

Four recent actions gave me insights into the changing business models of the accounting business.

Corporations brought $88.3 billion of overseas profits back to the U.S. in the second quarter, marking nearly $1 trillion that has returned since Congress overhauled the international tax system.