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Differences with the as-yet-unpassed Senate bill need to be reconciled.

The House passed tax reform legislation Thursday by a vote of 227-205, with 13 Republicans voting against the bill, as the Senate Finance Committee continued debating and marking up a significantly different version of the bill.

House Republicans passed their version of legislation to overhaul the U.S. tax code by slashing the corporate tax rate, lowering tax burdens for most individuals and adding an estimated $1.4 trillion to the federal deficit over the next decade.

The Anti-Fraud Collaboration, a joint effort of the Center for Audit Quality, Financial Executives International, the Institute of Internal Auditors and the National Association of Corporate Directors, has released a new report urging accountants, auditors and other business people to blow the whistle on any financial reporting shenanigans they see.

Marks Paneth LLP, a New York-based Top 100 Firm, has expanded to Connecticut by adding Dylewsky, Goldberg & Brenner, a firm based in Stamford, effective No. 1, 2017.

Steven Zelin, a New York City-based CPA who performs music as the “Singing CPA,” is merging his firm, Steven Zelin CPA LLC, with Newman & Cohen, CPA, P.C., effective Thursday.

South Florida firm Kabat, Schertzer, De La Torre, Taraboulos and Co. will be featured on multiple cars at the Nov. 18 event.

Ireland is set to miss a deadline to hire managers for Apple Inc.’s tax billions during an appeal of a European Union antitrust ruling, the latest delay in a saga that has dragged on for more than a year.

Senate Republicans may face a political problem in the final push for their tax-cut plan, and they might need Democrats to help fix it.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is mounting a cross-country roadshow to persuade businesses and the Republican faithful to put their weight behind a proposed tax overhaul from the Trump administration that so far lacks broad public support.

President Donald Trump is confident that House Republican leaders have the votes to pass their version of a tax overhaul, and he’ll thank members of the GOP conference and field their questions on a visit to the Capitol this morning, a senior administration official said.

House Republicans passed their tax-overhaul bill on Thursday as Senate tax writers sent their proposal to make individual breaks temporary and repeal a key part of the Obamacare law to the Senate floor. Here are the latest developments, updated throughout the day:

Mark your calendars! The effective date for the FASB and IASB’s new revenue recognition accounting standards (ASC 606 and IFRS 15) is approaching.

The annual award highlights notable achievements in collegiate accounting tuition.

The upcoming revenue recognition standard is likely to accelerate the earnings of many software companies, with many developers likely to transition from upfront license sales to subscriptions, according to a new report.

A federal jury in Boston has convicted a Miami CPA on multiple counts of tax fraud and obstructing the Internal Revenue Service, but he is vowing to appeal.

The Financial Accounting Foundation has reappointed James L. Kroeker to a second term as vice chairman of the Financial Accounting Standards Board and appointed Gary R. Buesser, a portfolio manager and financial analyst, as a new FASB member, starting July 1, 2018.

Many businesses are still getting ready for the new revenue recognition and leasing standards, and in some cases that involves changing their technology and processes.

The Top 100 firm provided $60K to nonprofits across four states for innovative charitable efforts.

Senate Republicans have tossed a potential bomb in the middle of their tax overhaul bill.