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Jeff Harjo has joined Hogan Taylor as partner and will lead the firms financial institution practice.
July 9 -
Only 14 percent of capital markets executives at leading investment banks believe the JOBS Act is having a positive impact on increasing the number of IPOs on U.S. exchanges, according to a new survey by BDO USA.
July 9 -
I believe that opportunity provides an open door to a limitless future. I also believe that every young personno matter their race, gender, orientation or disability- should be afforded the exposure to these opportunities.
July 9 -
The Internal Revenue Service has reportedly posted the Social Security numbers of tens of thousands of people on the Internet before taking down the information after a whistleblower pointed out the mistake.
July 8 -
The House has approved a bill that prohibits the Public Company Accounting and Oversight Board from forcing public companies to automatically change or rotate their independent auditing firms.
July 8 -
Deloittes Canadian firm said Monday that it has signed a binding agreement to acquire the SAP consulting firm Quattro Integration Group.
July 8 -
The Securities and Exchange Commissions custody rule governing investment advisors custody of client assets imposes various requirements and, in turn, costs on investment advisors, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office.
July 8 -
The Financial Planning Coalition submitted a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission saying it would "vigorously oppose" attempts to weaken the fiduciary standard for broker-dealers and submitted research showing a client-first standard does not limit advice to mass market clients.
July 8 -
The leaders of Congresss two main tax-writing committees kicked off their national tax reform tour Monday with meetings at two businesses in the Twin Cities area.
July 8 -
IT, accounting and finance administrative processes dominate the future outsourcing plans of major companies, according to a new survey by KPMG.
July 8 -
The Financial Accounting Standards Board is issuing a new accounting standards update on Monday that defers indefinitely certain disclosures about investments held by nonpublic employee benefit plans in their plan sponsors own nonpublic equity securities.
July 8 -
Check out the digital edition of the July 2013 issue of Accounting Today.
July 8 -
The National Association of Professional Employer Organizations has grown in membership, revenue and clout since its inception in 1984 .
July 8 -
A campaign finance scandal has led Bazilio Cobb Associates to spinoff its assurance practice to BCA Watson Rice LLP.
July 5 -
The Swiss government announced a new approach allowing banks to hand over data to U.S. authorities in a bid to solve a dispute over undeclared assets and forestall further indictments by the Department of Justice.
July 5 -
Paul Dunn, chairman of the business giving organization Buy1GIVE1 and founder of Results Accountants' Systems and the Accountants' Boot Camp process, talks with Accounting Today senior editor Danielle Lee at the Practitioners Symposium and Tech+ Conference about how firms can create an inspiring environment that attracts managers, staff and clients to join the business.
July 5
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The Internal Revenue Service has proposed tax relief for money market fund investors in response to concerns about proposed reforms from the Securities and Exchange Commission in the money market industry that could trigger so-called wash sale tax rules.
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Rep. Bill Posey, R-Fla., has written a letter to Treasury Secretary Jack Lew questioning regulations that would require U.S. banks and credit unions to collect and report information on nonresident aliens, urging him to cease enforcement of the Foreign Accounting Tax Compliance Act, or FATCA, and stop negotiating intergovernmental agreements with other countries for FATCA enforcement.
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The Government Accountability Office recommended in a new report that the Securities and Exchange Commission should consider requiring public companies where applicable to explicitly disclose whether they obtained an auditor attestation of their internal controls.
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