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The American Institute of CPAs has released a list of 10 suggestions for individual taxpayers and their preparers filing tax returns this season.

TaxJar, a provider of tax management services for online retailers, has raised $600,000 from angel investors.

CPE provider SmartPros Ltd. has released the eLP-Mobile eLearning platform to enable customers to access continuing education and training courses directly from supported phones and tablets.

The sales process of many professional advisors is flawed.

More than half of compliance officers anticipate their personal liability will increase this year, according to a new survey.

The Tax Court has ruled against an accountant who tried to deduct a portion of his gambling losses from his taxes.

Most U.S.-based multinational corporations paid lower U.S. taxes on their domestic profits than they paid to foreign governments on their foreign profits, according to a recent study.

The Dispatch app aims to help users deal with the constant flood of e-mails.

Last November, the Financial Accounting Standards Board endorsed simplifying the accounting standards that private companies use in measuring and reporting goodwill, and FASB is currently looking into the possibility of changing the standards for public companies too.

“Blind luck” is how Jack Johns characterized his 16 percent profit on something he read about on the Internet called Master Limited Partnerships. Johns, a retired postal worker from Rincon, Georgia, said he sold his MLP investments within a year because he realized he didn’t really know what he’d bought.

Deloitte announced it has broadened its relationship with SAP, signing a global value-added reseller agreement.

Entrepreneurs are the brightest, most focused and determined people I know. But it is also lonely for many of them.

Deloitte held its board meeting in New York this past week and also took time to meet with some members of the press to discuss its diversity and recruiting efforts.

Cougar Mountain Software announced the release of their Denali Payroll accounting software to a select group of beta customers.

Transition Advisors president Joel Sinkin discusses his new book on how accounting firms can execute a successful merger or acquisition, in an interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Daniel Hood.

The House Financial Services Committee has overwhelmingly approved bipartisan legislation that would remove a requirement for smaller public companies with less than $250 million in annual revenue from filing their financial statements in Extensible Business Reporting Language, or XBRL, format for five years.

Chrome River debuted a new purchase order module that integrates to provide full pre-purchase authorization.

Accounting Today is looking for speakers for its upcoming annual Growth & Profitability Summit.

New hires, promotions and more…

This season is turning dangerous for tax preparers, according to published reports.