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Deborah Walker has joined Cherry Bekaert LLP as the national director of the firm’s compensation & benefits solutions group.

Nonprofit-focused accounting software maker Serenic Corporation is now offering free trials of Serenic Navigator Express, a cloud-based version of the company’s flagship accounting product designed to track multiple funds, manage expenses against budgets, and produce timely, accurate reports.

U.S. Wealth Management chairman and CEO John Napolitano discusses the unappreciated qualities that make up a great financial planner, in an interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Daniel Hood.

The IRS needs to improve its procedures to enable taxpayers to access their tax account information and identities online in a secure way, according to a new report.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has proposed for a second time the idea of requiring auditor reports to disclose the names of the lead partner on an audit engagement and some of the other individuals and firms who participated in audits of public companies, brokers and dealers.

The Securities and Exchange Commission charged Fifth Third Bank’s holding company, Fifth Third Bancorp, on Wednesday and its former chief financial officer, with improper accounting of commercial real estate loans during the financial crisis.

The reasons to begin conversations with both current and potential clients with an emphasis on report writers are more compelling than ever, particularly as this technology has become more available and easier for small businesses to use and deploy.

Ed Mendlowitz, a partner at WithumSmith+Brown, discusses how small CPA firms can benefit from conferences like Accounting Today's recent Growth & Profitability Summit in Orlando, in an interview with managing editor Tamika Cody.

The Supreme Court held that the 40 percent gross valuation misstatement penalty applies to overstated basis where partnerships were shams, so no partner could legitimately claim a basis in the partnership interest greater than zero.

Audit and risk management product maker ACL has released a purchase card fraud product designed to enable organizations to immediately identify and remediate suspicious transactions.

Employers in the private sector added 215,000 jobs from October to November, according to payroll giant ADP, in a sign of increasing strength across broad segments of the economy despite challenges like health care reform and the lingering effects from October’s government shutdown.

Top 100 CPA firm Grassi & Co. has officially launched Grassi Technology Consultants, a new subsidiary that moves the firm further towards technology consulting and potentially larger clients, but away from reselling.

The Senate Finance Committee has scheduled a hearing next Tuesday to consider the nomination of John Koskinen as the next Internal Revenue Service commissioner as the agency seeks to emerge from a series of recent scandals that have prompted the departures of a number of high-ranking officials.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board acknowledged Tuesday that a 1992 standard on accounting for income taxes did little to simplify the accounting.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board named 17 new members and reappointed members of its Standing Advisory Group, who will serve three-year terms starting next month.

Big data and bad data are proving to be a big challenge for tax departments at major corporations, according to a new survey that found them spending a disproportionate amount of time consolidating and gathering information, reconciling it, and detecting and correcting errors.

On top of the other problems associated with the troubled rollout of the federal government’s online health insurance exchange, the Internal Revenue Service is now being urged to strengthen the security and anti-fraud protections for the tax credits it will be providing to help taxpayers afford the cost of the insurance premiums.

Open-source ERP and CRM software maker xTuple has released xTupleCommerce – version 2.0 of its eCommerce Web portal – and acquired Web consultancy Artsmith Media to support customer demand for the offering.