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A Los Angeles tax attorney has received more than 6,500 pages from the Internal Revenue Service on the agency’s Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program and how it trains its agents.

Online audit confirmation provider Confirmation.com said Tuesday it has acquired LegalConfirm, a Maryland-based provider of electronic legal confirmations.

The International Accounting Standards Board has launched a new program in tandem with some of the largest financial firms in a bid to elicit closer ties with investors and investment firms.

Prompter disclosure of corporate audit fees would help investors, according to a new study that found sudden increases in audit fees may be a sign of trouble at companies.

The New York State Department of Taxation and Finance has launched a continuing education program as part of the state’s efforts to regulate tax preparers.

The Internal Revenue Service needs to improve the security of the health care information submitted by health insurance providers and pharmaceutical makers and importers on information returns, according to a new government report.

U.S. Wealth Management CEO John Napolitano offers strategies for boosting your financial planning practice.

Crowe Horwath LLP has introduced the Crowe International Tax Manager, a Web-based automated information gathering tool that helps streamline tax-reporting processes.

The Center for Audit Quality and Audit Analytics teamed up on an analysis of 2014 audit committee disclosures in proxy statements to assess the effectiveness of the disclosures by public companies of their relationships with auditors and found that many public companies are suffering from disclosure overload.

Top 100 Firm Eide Bailly LLP, has agreed to add the Reno, Nev.-based firm Kafoury, Armstrong & Co. to its roster. The combination will be completed on Dec. 15, 2014.

Tunis has over 25 years of partner-level expertise with privately-owned businesses in the tri-state area, providing services to importers, wholesalers, manufacturers and internet retailers.

Top 100 Firm The Bonadio Group has agreed to merge with Testone, Marshall & Discenza. The deal is set to close on Jan.1, 2015.

Compliance and data security have recently been in the spotlight, due to major breaches at Experian and Home Depot, among numerous others.

The U.S. House of Representatives will probably vote this week to revive dozens of lapsed tax breaks and extend them only through the end of this year, said a Republican member of the Ways and Means Committee.

As 2014 winds down, you may be able to help your clients kill two birds with one stone by combining routine portfolio rebalancing with tax loss harvesting.

Your peers' predictions for the next year in accounting

Tomorrow happens to be Giving Tuesday, a global day dedicated to giving back, and a pair of CPAs have some advice for those who are planning their end-of-year charitable giving.

A number of years ago we purchased a practice in late February to get the business clients. However, we had to agree to service the individual tax clients, of whom there were about 180, with each paying a very low fee. The seller did not want to hang up his long-time clients.

BKL will now operate under the Porte Brown name and will continue to serve clients in its downtown Evanston location.

The Center for Audit Quality has issued a request for proposals to fund independent academic research on auditing-related topics.