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Becker Professional Education, subsidiary of the DeVry Education Group, announced on Thursday that Kenneth Koskay will be joining the company as senior director of Global Accounts. Koskay will lead a team of sales representatives focused on growing Becker’s Continuing Professional Education (CPE) product line.

The American Institute of CPAs is proposing to change the current peer review report so it clearly indicates if a Single Audit was chosen.

The Oregon Society of CPAS (OSCPA) Educational Foundation, in affiliation with the OSCPA, recently announced its scholarship award recipients for the 2016-17 academic year. Scholarships range from $2,000 to $3,000, for a total of $106,000 awarded to 49 students.

A Democratic super PAC has come up with a new way to try to get Donald Trump’s tax information: by filing a Freedom of Information Act request with the Internal Revenue Service.

The rules for claiming net operating losses to offset income tax liabilities can vary from state to state and are proving to be a big challenge for many companies, especially as both the economy and corporate profitability improve.

Cloud accounting provider Xero debuted a number of new products and offerings at its user conference, Xerocon, held here this week.

If you walked into a Mercedes automobile dealership and the sales person greeted you by asking, “What kind of Kia do you want to buy today?” you just might be a little perturbed. This is how many of our clients see us.

The AICPA announced on Wednesday that they will be offering a free, four-part webcast series on creating a more inclusive workplace in the accounting profession. Dubbed "The Workplace Inclusion" series, the webcast is a continuation of an earlier series on unconscious bias. The first part will premiere on Thursday, Aug. 18, from 1-2 pm ET.

The Internal Revenue Service issued final regulations Wednesday for a 2 percent tax on payments from the U.S. government to foreign contractors.

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton could have cut her 2015 federal tax bill roughly in half—lopping about $1.7 million from what she owed—under the plan offered by Republican rival Donald Trump.

Top 100 accounting and business advisory firm RubinBrown announced on Tuesday the roll out of its new brand for wealth advisory services - RubinBrown Wealth Advisors.

Hain Celestial Group Inc., a supplier of organic and natural products to Whole Foods Market Inc. and other grocers, plunged the most in more than 15 years after delaying financial results on accounting concerns and abandoning its full-year targets.

Retaining and attracting the next generation of qualified professionals

IMA president and CEO Jeff Thomson explains in this video the goals for his group's proposed framework for management accounting competency.

The AICPA and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) announced this week that Isabella Grabner, associate professor of accounting at Maastricht University School of Business and Economics, Netherlands, is the recipient of the 2016 Best Early Career Researcher Award.

A total of 37 states provide full exemptions from sales and use taxes on manufacturing equipment and machinery, but for the rest of the states, the rules can be different.

Sensiba San Filippo LLP has acquired The Resultants Inc., a consulting firm that specializes in internal audit and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance for small and midsize business clients.

The average rate for sales taxes across the U.S. increased a bit in the second quarter of the year, according to a new report.

Crowe Horwath has introduced the Crowe Insight Center for Audit to advance the firm’s auditing services.

Longer lives and the prospect of weaker investment returns mean millennials will probably have to save more money, over a longer period of time, than their parents and grandparents.