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Awareness of the implications of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, also known as FATCA, is growing.

Gary Mitchell, managing partner of the Denver-based accounting and consulting firm Anton Collins Mitchell LLP (ACM), has announced that effective Oct. 1, 2013, he will step down as the firm’s managing partner.

More than half of Americans gave themselves an A or B grade on their saving and investing knowledge, while giving the average American a failing grade of D, according to a new survey.

John Koskinen, nominated to become the next Internal Revenue Service commissioner, has a net worth between $7.1 million and $27.4 million, according to a financial disclosure released by the Obama administration.

Open source ERP product maker xTuple has released version 4.1 of its flagship product, which now integrates an open source business intelligence suite with a mobile Web client.

Top business executives who are also CPAs are raising their expectations for hiring in the coming year, according to a new survey by the American Institute of CPAs.

The Group of 20 world leaders issued a declaration last week calling for a crackdown on cross-border tax evasion.

The Tax & Accounting business of Thomson Reuters has acquired the continuing professional education and CPA test preparation division of Bisk Education, Inc., one of the largest providers of online education from American universities.

A new program allowing Swiss banks to cooperate with U.S. tax authorities means that the days of U.S. citizens successfully keeping their numbered Swiss bank accounts hidden from the prying eyes of the IRS could be coming to an end.

Accounting firms need to offer their clients more higher-level advisory services, according to technology consultant Gary Boomer.

The struggle to attract and retain talent, and interest in leveraging the cloud, are among the most important trends that accounting firms need to adapt to, according to Boomer Consulting’s Jim Boomer and Sandra Wiley.

The leaders of Congress’s two tax-writing committees have continued their tax reform road show tour with a stop in Memphis, Tenn.

Rosen, Sapperstein & Friedlander has acquired the assets of Washington, DC-based Becker & Co., formerly known as the Maryland office of MargolisBecker LLC.

Top NetSuite partner ERP Guru has merged in EnabledSuccess Inc, another leading NetSuite VAR with offices in Canada and the U.S.

U.S. companies increased their mergers and acquisitions in emerging and high-growth markets in the first half of the year, but pulled back in other markets, according to a new study by KPMG International.

Cloud-based business analytics tool maker Adaptive Planning announced the release of its Fall 2013 product, which includes, among other things, new unified financial and operational analytics features.

The Internal Revenue Service needs to strengthen its correspondence audit selection process by auditing more of the prior- and subsequent-year tax returns of noncompliant income tax filers, according to a new government report.

The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service have issued proposed regulations to implement the information reporting requirements for insurers and certain employers under the Affordable Care Act.

Check out the digital edition of the September 2013 issue of Accounting Today.

The Internal Revenue Service on Friday released to the House Ways and Means Committee another video spoof to add to their infamous collection, a parody of Donald Trump’s “The Apprentice.”