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The United States is now facing two deficits—a government budget deficit and a balance of trade deficit. These two deficits, together, will ultimately put the future of the United States in peril unless the government and its citizens take strong action.

The Center for Audit Quality has released a new Guide to Internal Control Over Financial Reporting to explain to investors and the general public the process used by U.S. public companies to enhance the reliability of their financial statements by reducing the risk of material errors or misstatements.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board is mulling the possibility of reorganizing its auditing standards into a topical structure.

Chief audit executives are focusing on adding more value to their organizations as they move away from strictly a compliance role.

House Republicans have passed the budget plan introduced by House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., for fiscal year 2014, which shrinks the number of tax brackets to two brackets of 10 and 25 percent.

Microsoft Dynamics Master VAR Tribridge took the opportunity during the Convergence 2013 user and partner event to announce the addition of two new affiliates to its network, CBR Technology and MIC Business Solutions.

The chairman of the House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee is calling on the Internal Revenue Service to provide a detailed accounting of how much taxpayer money will be used to implement the health care reform law and many IRS employees will be needed to work on it.

The International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants has released stronger provisions in its Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants to address conflicts of interest and a breach of a requirement of the code.

CCH has improved its CCH Tax News Highlights App for iPhone, iPad and Android mobile devices with social media sharing features, a new interface and access to more content.

An influential lawmaker on Congress’s tax writing committee is calling on the Internal Revenue Service to release a copy of video parodies it shot of Star Trek and Gilligan’s Island.

In the world of trust and estate administration, where tax planning typically involves special attention to federal tax law compliance, it’s easy to lose focus on state income taxation issues. And while some states do not tax income related to trusts, states that do tax trust income have a variety of rules and criteria for which trusts are subject to tax.

Deloitte chief inclusion officer Deb DeHaas discusses the opening of Deloitte University's Leadership Center for Inclusion with Accounting Today senior editor Danielle Lee, as the firm encourages greater diversity.

The Internal Revenue Service is giving relief from late-payment tax penalties to individuals and businesses that request a tax-filing extension because they are attaching to their returns any of the forms that couldn’t be filed until after January.

The U.S. economy will be between 1.5 and 2.6 percent smaller over the long-term because other nations’ corporate tax rates are considerably more competitive, according to a new study by Ernst & Young and the RATE Coalition, a group lobbying for lower corporate tax rates.

The Tax Court recently settled the valuation issues of an estate that held 64 works of art.

Headquartered in a former Rothschild chateau in an affluent Parisian neighborhood, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is best known for earnest conferences on economic and social policy.

The Government Accountability Office has expressed its support for giving auditors more responsibility for the information in documents accompanying audited financial statements.

The Minnesota Department of Revenue has reinstated Intuit’s consumer and professional tax products to its approved vendor list.

Microsoft Dynamics' plans for its products' future are heavily focused on the cloud with some mobile and social aspects, specifically with its latest releases.