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Even if you’re a sole practitioner with no additional staff, one or both of two things is inevitable.

KPMG LLP’s wholly owned subsidiary, KPMG Corporate Finance LLC has acquired substantially all of the assets of St. Charles Capital, a boutique investment bank that provides M&A and capital advisory services for mid-market companies nationwide. Terms of the deal were undisclosed.

Deloitte has appointed Catherine Engelbert as chairman and CEO of Deloitte & Touche LLP, the audit subsidiary of Deloitte LLP, to lead its audit practice.

The combined CE Week and Showstoppers technology trade show in New York on Wednesday offered plenty of cool consumer electronics and tech gadgets on display.

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

Now that school is out (unless you live in a part of the country still making up for lost “snow days”), it’s easy to get caught up in the general euphoria and take a vacation from thoughts of tax preparation for the summer. But now is precisely the time preparers need to keep communication lines open with their clients, according to Chuck McCabe, president of Peoples Income Tax and The Income Tax School.

The Internal Revenue Service is moving ahead with a voluntary tax preparer education program after legal challenges derailed an earlier mandatory testing and continuing education program.

Intuit announced a partnership with SmartVault to offer an integrated document management solution.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has released staff guidance to help auditors of brokers and dealers registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission to plan and perform audits in accordance with PCAOB standards as mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act and SEC rules.

The Internal Revenue Service has successfully implemented a provision of the Affordable Care Act involving prescription drug fees imposed on pharmaceutical manufacturers and importers, according to a new report.

Devereux is actively engaged as a tax advisor and business consultant for Mueller Prost as director of manufacturing and distribution services.

A new study finds that disclosure of personal relationships between corporate CEOs and members of the board of directors could paradoxically encourage directors to exhibit less independence from management.

Thomson Reuters has released a special report examining the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board’s new standards affecting broker-dealer audits.

A new study suggests that tax filing season could be the best time to sign up clients for health coverage under the Affordable Care Act rather than the current open enrollment period.

Companies still struggle to control and cost-optimize employee travel and expense spending, according to a new study.

Nearly two times as many startup business owners cite the U.S. tax structure over health care reform as the issue they anticipate having the biggest impact on their business this year, according to a new survey by the payroll technology provider Paychex.

MJR’s staff, and its six partners, will be joining Gallina once the acquisition is complete on July 1, 2014.

All too often in the practice of accounting we are predominately attentive to adhering to the concepts and conventions promulgated by the “accounting gods.”

The Center for Audit Quality and the Auditing Section of the American Accounting Association have announced four awards as part of a program designed to give academic researchers access to audit firm personnel to use in their research projects.

House Republicans are accusing Lois Lerner, the former director of the Internal Revenue Service’s Exempt Organizations unit, of emailing a colleague about subjecting Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, the former chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, to an IRS examination.