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Our weekly roundup of tax-related investment strategies and news your clients may be thinking about.

Deloitte recently formed a Social Impact Practice to help clients deal with pressing global issues such as food security, health, education, clean water and the environment.

Intuit launched a new platform to simplify workers compensation insurance payments for small businesses.

Piguet Galland & Cie SA will pay $15.4 million to avoid prosecution under a U.S. program that requires participating firms in Switzerland to say how they helped American clients dodge taxes.

It’s the age of cyber-mobility – for you, your practice and your clients – and firms that can’t adapt will lose a competitive advantage.

CPA.com announced new products and services at the American Institute of CPA’s 2015 Fall Meeting of Council.

Oscar Wilde was certainly not thinking about accounting firm mergers and acquisitions when he penned his farcical comedy, The Importance of Being Earnest. But, the message in the title is abundantly clear for any CPA firm considering such a transaction.

The oil and gas industry’s earnings season is barely underway, and already there’s been $6.5 billion in writedowns.

A senior Republican senator said lawmakers need better data on Puerto Rico’s financial situation before helping the island, as the Obama administration and the territory’s governor stepped up their warnings about the depths of its crisis.

Education services company Kaplan Inc. a subsidiary of publicly traded Graham Holdings, has agreed to acquire SmartPros, Ltd., a provider of accredited professional education and training for accountants and other finance professionals.

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

The Internal Revenue Service recently proposed regulations that could have a big impact on U.S.-based multinational corporations that are considering incorporating a foreign branch operation or transferring intellectual property abroad.

It’s just not in the nature of most accountants to make hassle calls to taxpayer clients who are late coming in to get their returns prepared and filed.

“This meeting is about perspective,” said Barry Melancon, president and CEO of the American Institute of CPAs, while sharing his during the AICPA’s 2015 Fall Meeting of Council.

The Securities and Exchange Commission reported Thursday on its enforcement results in fiscal year 2015, highlighting several cases involving accounting and auditing lapses.

Magician David Copperfield has sued his accountant for failing to file his 2008 and 2009 Canadian tax returns and not telling him his previous accountant didn’t file his 2007 Canadian tax return either.

The CAQ highlights nine areas auditors will want to pay particular attention to in the next audit cycle

The Internal Revenue Service has been providing face-to-face assistance to fewer people at its Taxpayer Assistance Centers around the country, according to a new government report.

The dizzying rise and rapid fall in the shares of drugmaker Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. is eerily familiar to Canadian investors still smarting from the last time a small market was dominated by single stocks—BlackBerry Ltd. and Nortel Networks Corp.

Surveys show that more and more clients are complaining that their accountants are not proactive or innovative enough – but they can change that, according to futurist Daniel Burrus.