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The newly added firm will operate under the Mowery & Schoenfeld name. Wolowicki & Associates has since relocated to Mowery & Schoenfeld's offices in Lincolnshire, Ill.
January 7 -
Kreinces Rollins & Shanker LLC has reached an agreement to acquire the tax practice of Robert A. Samsel LLC of Lodi, N.J.
January 7 -
The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and the Institute of Management Accountants are commemorating the second annual CFO Month, with a technology-focused theme to mark the rise of the techno-finance chief.
January 7 -
Dan Heller, CPA, has joined Top 100 Firm EisnerAmper LLP as a partner in the private business services practice in its San Francisco office.
January 7 -
Capital markets executives at leading investment banks are projecting continued growth in initial public offerings on U.S. exchanges in 2014, according to a new survey by accounting and consulting firm BDO USA that projects $66 billion in IPO proceeds on U.S. exchanges this year.
January 7 -
The International Federation of Accountants is reiterating its call for global policymakers to focus on regulatory convergence, arguing that their failure to do so is stifling business confidence, economic stability and ambitions for a sustainable recovery.
January 7 -
After watching a weekend of football, it is obvious how important the fundamentals are to success. The teams that rely on the big play are inconsistent. Basic blocking and tackling arent that interesting, but without them, they will prevent teams from winning. The same is true with your performance as a professional accountant.
January 6 -
The Senate has confirmed Janet Yellen as chairman of the Federal Reserve by a vote of 56 to 26, succeeding Ben Bernanke, whose term ends on Jan. 31.
January 6 -
The newly approved commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, John Koskinen, said Monday that he would support voluntary certification for tax preparers if the Internal Revenue Service fails to win an appeal of a judges decision striking down the IRSs Registered Tax Return Preparer regulatory regime.
January 6 -
Ira Blecker will assist the firms founder, Sam Levy, with growth efforts.
January 6 -
Practitioners and consultants looking for new ways to message colleagues and clients have discovered the WhatsApp Messenger, a smartphone messenger available for Android, iPhone, Windows Phones, and Blackberry, which uses 3G or WiFi (when available) to deliver any message to any other phone on any other network.
January 6 -
CCH has published a new tax briefing outlining some of the significant tax changes of the past year.
January 6 -
Software partner veteran Terry Petrzelka, now a valued advisor and consultant to vendors and resellers discusses the oft avoided issue of succession planning, how firms should be measuring themselves and what exactly is going on with cloud ERP, or the comparative lack thereof.
January 6 -
Thomson Reuters has debuted Quickfinder Tax & Financial Tools, a set of calculators, worksheets and financial tools for tax and accounting practitioners.
January 6 -
The American Institute of CPA has published a Technical Practice Aid to address the use of current auditing standards for audits of prior periods.
January 6 -
Congress dangled an incentive for high-income Americans to convert their tax-deferred individual retirement accounts into post-tax plans. Their response was overwhelming.
January 6 -
Deutsche Bank AG, BDO Seidman LLP and an ex-BDO Seidman partner were sued over claims they designed a fraudulent tax shelter that caused losses for a former chief operating officer of a Fortune 100 software company.
January 6 -
From my observation there appears to be a major vision problem with CPA firms: no formal strategic plan for growth other than mergers and acquisitions.
January 6 -
Democrats in Congress plan to renew their efforts next week to extend the Emergency Unemployment Compensation program that expired on December 28.
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