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A roundup of recent expansions, additions, new services and other news from firms across the country.

NASBA chair Donny Burkett explains why the accounting profession needs to pursue diversity in this video.

The IRS has issued an urgent alert to tax professionals who use IRS e-Services to beware of an e-mail asking them to update their accounts and directing them to a fake Web site.

Victims of October's Hurricane Matthew in parts of Virginia may qualify for tax relief, the IRS said.

Top 6 Firm BDO USA brought on 15 new Securities and Exchange Commission audit clients in the third quarter, leading the auditor pack, while Hong Kong’s DCAW (CPA) Ltd. netted the most, with nine.

Tax preparers charge a nationwide average of $114 to prepare a Form 1040 with no schedules.

This past April, I stepped onstage to deliver the keynote address to one of my firm’s largest client conferences for tax. I addressed a group of 1,200 or more professionals almost evenly balanced between men and women. In fact, in EY’s own tax practice, women represent 52 percent of the professionals.

Accounting firms should not be afraid of risk and chaos, said consultant and analyst Allan Koltin during his keynote to open the second day of the 2016 Thomson Reuters Synergy user conference.

No business professional thinks they’re an easy mark, yet fraudsters are making off with millions of dollars each year.

The financial web is rewiring the small business economy so that new forms of capital can flow to small businesses.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued final regulations on controlled foreign corporations to provide rules about the treatment of U.S. property held by the CFC in connection with transactions involving partnerships.

The New Hampshire accounting firms Nathan Wechsler & Company, PA, and Robert M. Mucha, CPA, P.C., have combined, effective Oct. 28, 2016.

One of the biggest trends sweeping through the 2016 Best Firms to Work For is the creation of individual firm universities.

Jon Baron focused on the future to kick off Thomson Reuters’ 2016 Synergy users’ conference, steering the record 1,488 attendees toward a projected vision for the year 2020 and warning them where they could fall short.

A roundup of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

Republicans on the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee sent a a letter Thursday to Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew asking him to withdraw the Treasury’s recently proposed regulations on estate and gift taxes.

Ninety percent of the accounting industry is tied to compliance services in areas such as accounting, audit and tax, but don’t look there for encouraging signs of industry performance.

Internal Revenue Service examiners confront some steep barriers when trying to audit the transfer pricing strategies used by multinational corporations to reduce their taxes, according to a new report.

The New York State Society of CPAs has some recommendations for items that the Financial Accounting Standards Board should add to its to-do list.

The New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants (NYSSCPA) will hold their 2016 New York State Taxation Conference next Tuesday, November 8th. The conference will be held at the New York Bar Association, 42 West 44th Street, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.