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The number of companies lobbying the U.S. government on tax inversions more than doubled in the quarter ending Sept. 30, as they sought to prevent Congress and the Obama administration from imposing new restrictions.

Chances are, you receive PDF-formatted documents pretty often. And also likely, if you don’t use this popular format for other than reading documents, you have a copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your many devices which lets you open, but not edit or change, the PDF document.

Sage North America announced the availability of its Sage One mobile app to help entrepreneurs and small business owners manage accounting, project and invoicing needs remotely.

The American Institute of CPAs has introduced two new tools to help CPA firms and organizations expand and enhance their diversity and inclusion efforts.

A bipartisan group of 15 senators has written to the Internal Revenue Service urging the agency to do a better job of preventing tax refund fraud using stolen identities.

Let’s not kid ourselves. Financial statement auditing as we know it is facing a crisis of relevance in today’s capital markets.

As 2014 draws to a close, there may be more planning opportunities than ever before, but also more traps for the unwary, according to Grant Thornton LLP.

U.S. Wealth Management president and CEO John Napolitano discusses the key elements in building a holistic financial plan for clients and their families, in an interview with Accounting Today managing editor Tamika Cody.

The Internal Revenue Service’s Office of Safeguards is not doing enough to protect the federal tax information that it is required to disclose to other government agencies, according to a new report.

The American Institute of CPAs is getting ready to roll out its long-awaited update of compilation and review standards for CPAs, Statement on Standards for Accounting and Review Services No. 21 (SSARS No. 21), one of the most significant revisions in non-audit standards in the last 35 years.

Intuit unveiled its new QuickBooks Online Accountant during the VIP reception to kick off the company’s inaugural QuickBooks Connect conference Tuesday.

The final day of the American Institute of CPAs’ 2014 Fall Meeting of Council in Boston saw the AICPA Nominations Committee induct the next class of Board and Council members, including newly elected 2014-15 chair of the board Tommye Barie.

O’Connor Davies LLP, a New York City-based CPA firm, said Tuesday it would merge with Perl & Asch CPAs, P.C., a 26 year-old practice in Purchase, N.Y., effective Jan. 1, 2015.

A majority of board members at public companies want Congress to pass broad-based tax reform legislation to address corporate tax inversions, according to a new survey.

Last week I told the story of how we were hired to prepare corporate tax returns at a much higher fee than the client said they wanted to pay. This client grew to become our largest client. Here is how it happened.

The American Institute of CPAs has asked the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to reject appeals by EEOC staff to investigate and litigate against accounting firms about their mandatory partner retirement provisions, saying in a letter Monday that the classification of partners as employees would be disruptive to the accounting profession and its business practices.

The Internal Revenue Service will not meet the Treasury Department’s 2015 goal for full compliance with a directive requiring federal agencies to issue identification cards that allow workers to gain access to federally controlled facilities and information systems, according to a new government report that found IRS officials citing the lack of enough funding and staff as the main obstacles.

The CPA Consultants’ Alliance has released a new report on what drives happiness in CPA firms.

AICPA president and CEO Barry Melancon delivered the keynote speech at the 2014 Fall Meeting of Council in Boston on Monday, discussing the unprecedented changes he foresees in the accounting profession in the coming years.

The Internal Revenue Service did not always issue a notice of its intent to issue a levy on taxpayer assets, according to a new report.