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

With an estimated 75 percent of CPAs expected to retire over the next 15 years, according to the AICPA, CPA firms are under pressure to recruit and retain a sufficient number of young accountants to keep the business going.

Subscription billing software provider goTransverse announced a new partnership with enterprise IT consulting firm MatrixIntel.

It’s the beginning of the end of the filing date disconnect between foreign bank account reports and income tax returns.

Andrea Parness of A Parness Company CPA talks about how her firm is using online portals for exchanging tax documents with clients and payroll files with a payroll service, in a video interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Dan Hood.

The Governmental Accounting Standards Board has issued final guidance that requires state and local governments for the first time to disclose information about tax abatement agreements.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued final regulations for determining a taxable beneficiary’s basis in a term interest in a charitable remainder trust upon a sale or other disposition of all interests in the trust, to the extent that basis consists of a share of adjusted uniform basis.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has issued an accounting standards update on derivatives and hedging related to electricity contracts.

Bookkeeper360 has chosen Expensify as their preferred receipt and expense management partner.

9 steps to take before and after a divorce, from the experts at HD Vest

The causes behind Greece’s ever-worsening debt crisis have been attributed to different factors, including widespread tax evasion, harsh austerity measures, an underground economy, and predatory investment banks and hedge funds, but according to one expert, the main culprit is bad accounting.

Becoming a defendant in a lawsuit is not a pleasant experience, and the risk to accountants has risen dramatically in recent years.

The Internal Revenue Service said it will not assert that an individual whose personal information may have been compromised in a data breach must include in gross income the value of the identity protection services provided by the organization that experienced the data breach.

More than 75 percent of accounting firms cited revenue growth as the primary purpose of their marketing efforts, according to a new study of professional services marketing.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued final and temporary regulations removing the automatic 30-day extension of time to file information returns on forms in the W-2 series, with the exception of Form W-2G, in an effort to combat tax-related identity theft, starting in 2017.

The IRS is looking for applicants for vacancies on the Advisory Committee on Tax Exempt and Government Entities, or ACT, which provides advice and public input on the various areas of tax administration served by the Tax Exempt and Government Entities Division.

Andrea Parness of A Parness Company CPA talks about how technology has evolved in accounting firms and her firm's experiences during Hurricane Sandy with automated backup systems, in a video interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Dan Hood.

After years of passing on more and more health-care costs to employees, companies are slowing their adoption of high-deductible plans next year, according to a survey of more than 100 large U.S. employers.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board issued an accounting standards update on Wednesday deferring by one year the effective date of the converged revenue recognition standard that it released last year with the International Accounting Standards Board.

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