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Tim Gearty of Becker Professional Education talks about which skill sets will be most important for CPA candidates to be familiar with when preparing for the Uniform CPA Exam, in an interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Daniel Hood.

SurePayroll has released the October edition of its Small Business Scorecard just in time for Halloween.

Crowe Horwath LLP has issued a year-end tax-planning guide with information on income tax deductions, investments, retirement and estate planning and tax rates, along with what to do about the uncertain state of the tax extenders legislation in Congress.

The American Institute of CPAs’ Auditing Standards Board has issued a new auditing standard on internal control and an interpretation related to the sustainability financial statements used by the government for long-term projections of social insurance programs.

The Internal Revenue Service’s Information Reporting Program Advisory Committee issued its annual report for 2015, with numerous recommendations including changes in the IRS’s Taxpayer Identification Number Matching Program.

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, and 18 Republican members of his committee have introduced a resolution to begin proceedings in the House to impeach Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen.

South Korea will draw up measures to increase transparency to the accounting methods used by construction and shipbuilding companies to prevent them from running up huge losses when projects are delayed.

Daily fantasy-sports companies, at the center of legal and regulatory debate about whether their games are gambling, have agreed to the formation of a self-regulatory body led by former acting U.S. Secretary of Labor Seth Harris.

While some accounting firms are building better workplaces by surveying their employees, others are doing it by sending information back the other way.

To create an organization that’s ready to innovate, accountants need to divide their firms into teams with specific roles in the process, according to noted author and innovation expert Geoffrey Moore.

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AccountantsWorld CEO Dr. Chandra Bhansali is warning about the tax season crunch that many accountants will be facing in a few months when their clients come in to not only do their taxes, but also close the books on their small businesses, while getting help complying with the Affordable Care Act.

Top 100 accounting firm Mountjoy Chilton Medley LLP plans to merge in Cincinnati-based CPA firm Cooney Faulkner & Stevens, effective Jan. 1, 2016.

Grant Thornton LLP offers 10 tax tips for the end of calendar year 2015.

Tim Gearty of Becker Professional Education discusses the details of the changes in how the various sections of the new Uniform CPA Examination will be organized and scored, in an interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Daniel Hood.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged the St. Joe Company, a Watersound, Fla.-based real estate developer and landowner, its former top executives, and two former accounting department directors, with improperly accounting for the declining value of its residential real estate developments during the financial crisis.

High-performing firms gain an advantage when they adopt single, integrated solutions, CCH Software chief Teresa Mackintosh told attendees of the company’s user conference.

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