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A roundup of recent announcements from accounting firms and companies across the country.

Some of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

Our editors’ picks for what made news in the profession this year (text version)

The American Institute of CPAs has created an illustrative SOC 2 report to help CPAs report on controls over protected health information.

Edmond de Rothschild (Suisse) SA agreed to pay $45.4 million to avoid prosecution for helping U.S. clients evade taxes.

Congress passed a $1.1 trillion spending measure that extends a number of important tax provisions, and makes several of them permanent.

The IRS has issued the 2016 optional standard mileage rates used to calculate the deductible costs of operating an automobile for business, charitable, medical or moving purposes.

Top 100 Firm Warren Averett LLC announced that it will merge in Panama City-based Jinks & Moody, effective Jan. 1, 2016.

Ask any accountant in the country about “client service,” and you’ll be hard pressed to find one who does not consider it to be important.

Baldwin CPAs merged in Anderson, Bryant, Lasky & Winslow, PSC, a firm based in Louisville, Ky., effective Jan. 1, 2016, expanding the firm’s presence in Kentucky.

Online subscription and usage-based billing solutions provider goTransverse announced a strategic partnership with Navint Partners to become one of goTransvere’s select consulting partners.

With the advent of the Nanny Tax in 1994, it became a little more complicated for a family to hire a nanny, housekeeper or senior caregiver.

The House has approved tax extenders legislation that makes a number of the periodically expiring tax breaks into permanent features of the tax code.

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

On the heels of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board’s new standards for disclosure of audit engagement partners, the International Accounting Education Standards Board has issued new guidance for the implementation of its own standard, IES 8, Professional Competence for Engagement Partners Responsible for Audits of Financial Statements (Revised).

Are your clients prepared for the latest round of Affordable Care Act (ACA) compliance deadlines?

Tim Gearty of Becker Professional Education offers advice on what accounting job seekers should say in a job interview.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has made available the 2016 GAAP Financial Reporting Taxonomy, pending final acceptance by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

A group representing community banks is objecting to recent remarks last week by Financial Accounting Standards Board chairman Russell Golden, claiming they “slander” community banks.

A set of delays on Obamacare-related taxes in the new federal spending bill will give corporate earnings a modest boost but are unlikely to undo the law or produce significant changes in the health-care industry.