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The Internal Revenue Services Oversight Board heard about the various problems encountered by tax practitioners and taxpayers, including the shortened tax season, identity theft and tax fraud.
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ConvergenceCoaching co-founder and partner Jennifer Wilson talks with Accounting Today senior editor Danielle Lee about why women need to have the courage to speak up about their concerns about work/life issues such as child care at their firms.
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Paring down, partnering up and planning for the future are all relevant topics this week, including my take on a recent trip to the Information Technology Alliance Spring Collaborative.
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The Internal Revenue Service has changed the inflation-adjusted annual limitation for health savings accounts for next year.
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When Oklahoma energy billionaire George Kaiser opened the Northeast Gateway liquid natural gas terminal in 2008, the floating depots first delivery was shipped on the Excellence, a 909-foot supertanker that holds 138,000 cubic meters of LNGenough gas to meet more than 4 percent of daily U.S. demand.
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The unemployment rate fell a tenth of a percentage point to 7.5 percent, the lowest rate in five years, as employers added 165,000 jobs in April, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Index above 15,000 points.
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Epicor Software Corp. has released Epicor Mobile Business Analyzer, a new mobile business intelligence offering designed to support executive-level decision making for wholesale distributors.
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After a 16-month leadership transition process, Top 100 Firm SS&G Inc., selected Robert Littman to serve as chief executive officer.
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Top 100 Firm CliftonLarsonAllen has acquired the Kirklin, Ind.-based firm Nonprofit Financial Solutions.
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Its become an annual rite of spring, at least for methe release of Bloomberg BNAs Survey of state tax departments. The survey, Bloomberg BNAs 13th annual survey, asks questions aimed at clarifying each states position on the gray areas of corporate income and sales and use tax administration. Although nexus isnt the only topic, it has been one of the main emphases of the survey.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission is encouraging the Financial Accounting Standards Board to give accountants a long transition period to adjust to the upcoming revenue recognition standards.
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The research and advocacy organization Global Financial Integrity is urging Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., to allow the Senate to vote on agreements negotiated by the Treasury Department with Switzerland, Luxembourg, Hungary and other countries to implement the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, or FATCA, in an effort to ferret out tax evaders.
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Viewabill, a cloud-based technology that provides real-time access and insights to service providers billing, activities, and time entries, is actively targeting the accounting industry.
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In 1972, President Richard Nixon cruised to re-election. The Waltons premiered on CBS. And Sumner Redstone, who wasnt yet a global media mogul, made a taxable gift to his children and failed to file a return.
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Mahoney Sabol & Co. LLP merged in the practice of Robert L. Howard, Jr. The merger will give Mahoney Sabol five professional staff specializing in municipal, quasi-governmental and not-for-profit specialty practice areas.
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Skoda Minotti Technology Partners has merged with Westlake, Ohio-based DataServ. Deal terms were undisclosed.
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Kenneth Fischer has been named partner-in-charge of WeiserMazars LLP's health care group. Fischer succeeds Lawrence Cafasso who is stepping down after leading the group for seven years.
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Bill.com has hired former Intuit customer insights leader Julie Lubetkin as vice president of its accountant channel.
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