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Many investors are strongly affected by a company's corporate social responsibility whether they know it or not, according to a new study by a group of accounting professors, and should take into account a companys CSR record when picking stocks.
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Lyle Benson, founder of L.K. Benson & Co. and chairman of the AICPA's PFP Section, discusses how tax planning is becoming a more important part of a client's overall financial planning, in an interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Daniel Hood.
January 10
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Xero has hired CPA and accounting technology veteran Amy Vetter to the newly created position of global vice president of education, where she will lead the companys efforts on internal and external training.
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The Internal Revenue Service is changing some of the forms and procedures that organizations can use to apply for tax-exempt status as it seeks to emerge from a high-profile scandal last year over how it handled applications from political groups.
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Steven T. Miller, the former acting commissioner in charge of the Internal Revenue Service who left the agency last year amid revelations of improper screening of tax-exempt applications, has joined the tax advisory firm alliantgroup as national director of tax.
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The Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc. is planning to move to computer-based testing for its CFP Certification Examination, starting in November.
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Many considered Dec. 31, 2013, the final date for year-end tax planning, but there are numerous planning actions that you can take in 2014 retroactive to 2013. Heres a quick and easy guide to help you with your planning.
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Business management automation company Talygen is now offering a workflow feature which covers numerous topics and procedures including management of company financials, employees, customer service, client relationship, and more.
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Stephanie Kessler has been named partner at Reinsel Kuntz Lesher.
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There are already numerous studies attempting to peg the effect of tax rates on economic activity. There will undoubtedly be more, as politicians, economists and tax experts seek the magic formula to maximize both economic activity and government revenue.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged Diamond Foods and two of the San Francisco-based snack foods companys former executives for their roles in an accounting scheme to falsify walnut costs in order to boost earnings and meet estimates by stock analysts, and the company has agreed to pay $5 million to settle the SECs charges.
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The American Institute of CPAs has updated its Total Tax Insights calculator with information from 2013 to help taxpayers gauge the impact of more than 20 different federal, state and local taxes, including a new Medicare surtax that took effect last year, on their own taxes for this year.
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Approximately 35 percent of financial services organizations intend to increase their headcount this year, according to a new survey.
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Brock, Schechter & Polakoff LLP has added Gould & Swanson PC and John P. Whitty PC to its firm.
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National Taxpayer Advocate Nina E. Olson urged the Internal Revenue Service to adopt a comprehensive Taxpayer Bill of Rights in her annual report to Congress Thursday, saying it would increase trust in the agency and, more generally, strengthen the IRSs ability to serve taxpayers and collect tax. She also recommended allowing voluntary certification of unenrolled tax preparers if the IRS fails to win a court appeal of a ruling invalidating its testing requirements for tax preparers.
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GBH CPAs PC and Prather Kalman have merged their practices under the GBH name. The combined firm will have about 40 employees.
January 9 -
Accounting Today is issuing a Final Call for speakers for its second annual Accounting Technology Forum.
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Chris Spurio has been chosen to spearhead organic and internal strategic growth plans for the practice.
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