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Vincent Burke has been selected to lead WeiserMazars LLP’s Pennsylvania practice as partner-in-charge of the Philadelphia office.

The IRS has determined that it will follow the holding of a famous case in matters where Internet service providers are approached for contents of e-mail.

The United Kingdom’s Financial Reporting Council said Thursday that it has open an investigation into whether KPMG’s audit firm in the U.K. was independent when it conducted audits of automobile dealer Pendragon PLC.

Senate Appropriations Committee chair Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., urged Internal Revenue Service Acting Commissioner Steven T. Miller to do more to keep unscrupulous payroll service providers from cheating small businesses out of unremitted withholding taxes during an IRS budget hearing.

CompuPay, Inc., a BenefitMall Company, has formed a channel partnership with open source ERP product maker Open Systems, which will provide its resellers and end users access to CompuPay’s PayrollOnline service.

Intacct has unveiled Flex Reporting, a new tool designed to allow strategic CFOs to manage performance, look at financial metrics -- particularly accounting measures-- and performance related information unique to an organization.

A new academic study funded by the Center for Audit Quality scrutinizes the role of the external auditor in fraudulent financial reporting and found that the top areas cited by the Securities and Exchange Commission were failure to gather sufficient competent audit evidence, failure to exercise due professional care, and insufficient level of professional skepticism.

The Internal Revenue Service is teaming up with tax authorities in the United Kingdom and Australia to battle offshore tax havens after uncovering new information on specific taxpayers and advisors.

The leaders of Congress’s two main tax committee teamed up Thursday to launch a new Web site and Twitter feed, with the goal of getting input from the American public on tax reform.

The House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee held a hearing Wednesday to examine the causes for the widespread noncompliance found in a recent audit of tax-exempt colleges and universities by the Internal Revenue Service.

Institute of Management Accountants president and CEO Jeffrey Thomson discusses why accounting students should consider management accounting as a career, and the IMA's partnership with John Wiley & Sons on a learning system for Certified Management Accountants, in an interview with AccountingToday.com editor-in-chief Michael Cohn.

Sage North America today showed that total revenue in North America for the half year ended March 31, 2013 was $325.0 million, up 4 percent over the same prior year period.

CCH has released a new analysis of the Internet sales tax legislation approved by the Senate this week.

Patrick Donoghue has joined the Top 100 Firm Marcum LLP, as partner. He will lead the firm’s Advisory Services Practice in its New York City office.

NetSuite Inc. has acquired order management product provider OrderMotion Inc., which will effectively add the company’s cloud-based direct-to-consumer order management capabilities to NetSuite’s existing order management system.

Mueller Prost PC has combined its CPA and business advisory firm with Accurate Business Results.

The tax, accounting and business consulting firm Habif, Arogeti &Wynne LLP has agreed to merge in JRZ LLC.

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ken., has introduced legislation to repeal provisions of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, or FATCA, that he contends undermine the privacy of U.S. citizens.

As a CPA and attorney at law, this office has certainly seen its share of food service industry examinations, both at the federal and state levels.

The Private Company Council voted Tuesday to move forward with proposed alternatives within U.S. GAAP to improve financial reporting for private companies.