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According to a recent poll from staffing firm Robert Half, more and more professionals are getting support from their employers to continue their education. A majority of polled CFOs (72 percent) said their company covers some to all of the cost for their staff to obtain professional certifications.

SingerLewak LLP has expanded into the Inland Empire area of California by merging in Ahern Adcock Devlin LLP, an accounting, tax and consulting firm based in Riverside.

Private sector employers added 179,000 more jobs to their payrolls in July, according to payroll giant ADP, in another sign of a steadily strengthening economy despite recent indications of tepid growth.

Highlights of some of our favorite tax-related blogs from the past week.

The mobile game Pokémon Go has been grabbing the attention of young people ever since it was introduced last month, bringing together gamers in search of Pokémon characters, but could it also entice young employees and clients to the accounting firms that desperately need them?

The Internal Revenue Service has proposed new regulations that could change the rules for reporting qualified tuition and related expenses for students.

Transfer pricing documentation rules have come to the fore with the United Kingdom’s Brexit.

IT management solutions provider Network Alliance has hired a managing director for its CPA practice.

UC Berkeley Extension announced this week that they have exclusively partnered with Roger CPA Review for the school’s CPA Examination Preparation course series. Beginning September 2016, CPA candidates at Berkeley will be able to earn up to 4 academic credits (1 per course) while prepping with Roger's course materials.

U.S. Wealth Management CEO John Napolitano discusses in this video common mistakes made by personal financial planning clients, such as not properly identifying their assets.

The Internal Revenue Service is seeing a big increase this summer in automated phone calls from con artists pretending to work for the IRS calling innocent taxpayers demanding overdue taxes.

Lipschultz, Levin & Gray LLC has added Richard E. Winer P.C., bolstering the firm’s presence in the Chicago area.

WithumSmith+Brown has expanded its presence in New Jersey, adding McGuigan Tombs & Company, a $3 million-plus CPA firm.

The pace of small business job growth slackened slightly in July, according to the latest figures from payroll giant Paychex, although wages were up.

Mortgage interest deduction limit applies on per taxpayer basis.

Fundbox, a cash flow optimization tool for small businesses, has launched its iOS mobile app.

A Swiss banker used a toothpaste tube a decade ago to smuggle diamonds into the U.S. Prosecutors now say an Israeli bank employee devised a new way to help a U.S. client hide assets from the Internal Revenue Service: She carried account statements into the country on a USB flash drive concealed in her necklace.

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett ripped into Republican Donald Trump Monday over his refusal to release tax returns, his business bankruptcies, and his attack on a fallen soldier’s family, repeating a famous phrase from the McCarthy era, “have you no sense of decency, sir?”

Singer and rapper Iggy Azalea is reportedly facing a second tax lien from the Internal Revenue Service for $269,980.20 in unpaid federal income taxes from 2015.