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I have always told my clients to call me before they did anything major or new financially to see if there was anything tax-wise that could be done to help them.

Preservation of an unlimited charitable deduction garnered wide support from Senate leaders after more than 200 officials from various nonprofits paid a visit to Capitol Hill last week to lobby lawmakers.

The Internal Revenue Service is making steady progress toward complying with an initiative from the federal government to improve the security of external computer network connections, according to a new government report, but further improvements could still be made.

The Governmental Accounting Standards Board has issued a fix to correct a problem that emerged with the transition to new pension accounting standards.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board voted Monday to endorse two accounting standards proposed by the Private Company Council pertaining to accounting for goodwill subsequent to a business combination and for certain types of interest rate swaps in an effort to modify the existing accounting standards for private companies.

The mobile practitioner needs tools to stay connected to their calendars for all meetings and schedules, and the Tempo Smart Calendar app is one getting noticed and appreciated as it acts like a virtual personal assistant.

Peterson was among five inductees to Affordable Housing Finance magazine’s 2013 Affordable Housing Hall of Fame. She joins the 33 others who have been inducted since 2006 for their lasting contributions to the affordable housing industry.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers is asking the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee to avoid enacting any proposed tax reforms that would limit accounting flexibility for small businesses.

The board of trustees of the Financial Accounting Foundation appointed 10 new members Monday to the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council and six new members to the Governmental Accounting Standards Advisory Council.

Cloud accounting and small business finance tool maker Wave has released a new iOS application that accepts credit card payments on the go.

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development announced some new steps that the international community is taking toward automatic exchange of tax information between governments worldwide and published ratings of how well countries are complying with demands for greater transparency.

Let’s face facts: In less than six months Windows XP will be at its “end of life” and if you are still on this system your business will be on its own. So how do you keep your business and clients safe and stable after April 8, 2014?

The IRS is starting this year's Earned Income Tax Credit due diligence compliance audits of return preparers.

The Internal Revenue Service needs to increase its oversight over its technology hardware maintenance contracts to ensure it isn’t paying for unnecessary services, according to a new government report.

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G2 Fintech has improved the dividend analysis features in its tax analysis software TaxGopher.

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The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board made public on Friday some previously confidential parts of its 2009 inspection report on Deloitte & Touche LLP after the firm failed to completely address several quality control issues that the PCAOB had identified within a year.

A post-implementation review of a 1992 accounting standard addressing the accounting for income taxes found that the standard generally achieved its intended purpose, but may not have reduced the complexity of accounting for income taxes.

The Financial Accounting Foundation’s Board of Trustees, who oversee the Governmental Accounting Standards Board and the Financial Accounting Standards Board, has adopted a new policy clarifying the characteristics of the information that GASB can incorporate into the financial accounting and reporting concepts, standards, and guidance that it issues for state and local governments.