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Institute of Management Accountants president and CEO Jeffrey Thomson discusses the IMA's efforts to improve management accounting education and its partnerships with the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and the American Accounting Association, in an interview with AccountingToday.com editor-in-chief Michael Cohn.

The U.S.-based Center for Audit Quality has teamed up with two organizations in Europe and Australia on a new report that highlights the similar issues facing audit committees around the world.

KPMG has launched KPMG Link Cost Projector – Online, a Web-based version of its global mobility budgeting software, designed to serve international HR and finance departments.

The City of Harrisburg, Pa., has settled securities fraud charges with the Securities and Exchange Commission in the first-ever case in which the SEC has charged a municipality for misleading statements made outside of its securities disclosure documents.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has reproposed for public comment its related-parties auditing standard along with related amendments to other standards to address areas that have been contributing factors in financial reporting frauds.

The Senate has approved legislation requiring online retailers to collect sales taxes from Internet sales, even if they don’t have a physical presence in the state where the customer resides.

The owner of a jewelry store who received confidential information from a former KPMG partner about audit clients has pleaded guilty to insider trading charges.

Several hundred members of the National Treasury Employees Union are planning a rally at 26 Federal Plaza in New York City to call for an end to sequestration and protest unpaid furlough days for Internal Revenue Service employees and a planned shutdown of IRS services for the public.

Congress’s Joint Committee on Taxation has released a report summarizing various provisions of the Tax Code and suggestions that were sent to House Ways and Means Committee working groups tasked with various aspects of tax reform.

The Internal Revenue Service has published 2010 statistics on foreign trusts indicating an an increasing interest in foreign investment by U.S. taxpayers, and the impact of changes made in 1996 to information reporting requirements.

A recent survey of CPA firms identified marketing and business development as among the most important management issues facing these establishments.

CFOs who are hiring accounting and finance staff are looking beyond accounting skills, according to a new survey.

Julie Vadnais is the new chief operating officer of Lavine, Lofgren, Morris & Engelberg LLP. Vadnais succeeds Bob Hasse who went on to work as a principal at RGHasse Consulting.

The LogMeIn apps are essentially your mobile remote control device to your Mac or PC and increasingly mobile practitioners and consultants are finding this app incredibly useful, since they don’t need to be concerned about being away from their computers.

A group of small business owners and individuals in six states have filed suit against the federal government over an IRS regulation imposed under the Affordable Care Act that the plaintiffs claim will require them to pay fines, cut back employee hours, or severely burden their businesses.

The two genders may be very different (and vive la difference, as the French would say), but not when it comes to their retirement expectations and preparations, according to a new survey.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued final regulations requiring any person who has been assigned an Employer Identification Number to provide updated information to the IRS.

ConvergenceCoaching co-founder and partner Jennifer Wilson talks with Accounting Today senior editor Danielle Lee about how female accountants can position themselves better for a promotion at their firms.

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

Public Company Accounting Oversight Board member Jay Hanson spoke about some of the challenges faced by auditors and how the PCAOB is trying to address them.