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The accountant who signed off on phony audits of Bernard Madoff’s firm for decades became the fourth person tied to the $17.5 billion fraud to avoid prison after aiding prosecutors.

As the debate goes on about how to curb the increasing incidence of taxpayer identity theft in the U.S., members of BKR International discussed their experiences during the recent tax filing season, as well as ways to mitigate future risk and help clients respond to fraudulent activity should it occur.

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Like the rest of the world, accounting professionals are quickly adopting mobile technology.

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

ACL announced it has completed the acquisition of Denver-based digital design firm Artletic.

Chuck McCabe, president of Peoples Income Tax and The Income Tax School, has some suggestions for independent preparers to stay on the “cutting edge” during the summer.

The U.S. Labor Department’s Employee Benefits Security Administration has released a study criticizing the quality of employee benefit plan audits performed by CPAs, finding that serious deficiencies in 39 percent of the audits are putting the benefit plans and 22.5 million participants and beneficiaries at risk.

CFOs and their employees don’t necessarily see eye to eye on the most common violations of workplace etiquette.

On the heels of a disclosure this week that identity thieves were able to access 104,000 tax returns through the Internal Revenue Service’s Get Transcript application, a new report finds that the IRS is improving its identification of fraudulent tax returns involving identity theft.

An after-action report on the 2015 filing season.

Top 20 accounting firm CohnReznick LLP has elected Frank Longobardi its next chief executive officer, effective October 1,

Thomson Reuters has released the fourth edition of its treatise, "Tax Planning for Highly Compensated Individuals," by Robert E. Madden on the Thomson Reuters Checkpoint service.

Claire Ighodaro, a board member of the International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants, sees a need for firms to promote an ethical culture by setting a tone at the top levels of the organization.

The International Accounting Standards Board has proposed a set of enhancements to the Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has released a proposed accounting standards update to simplify the accounting for measurement-period adjustments in business combinations.

The Internal Revenue Service has released the spring 2015 issue of the Statistics of Income Bulletin, which features preliminary data for individual income tax returns filed for tax year 2013, indicating that taxpayers were earning more income and relying less on unemployment insurance as the economy recovered from recession.

Marketing your valuation business is more important than ever.

Small form-factor PCs aren’t anything new. They have been available for years, though in the past they tended to be built around low-power, not-so-fast CPUs.

The Center for Audit Quality has premiered an online video series, “Profession in Focus," featuring interviews with leaders in the profession, starting with Deloitte’s new CEO, Cathy Engelbert.