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An Arizona accountant who pleaded guilty to preparing a false tax return was sentenced to three years’ probation.

Jeremy Migliara joins the firm’s State and Local Tax Group

The Senate Finance Committee held a hearing Wednesday on tax reform and the tax treatment of different business entities such as pass-through S corporations and C corporations.

The Senate Finance Committee has scheduled a session on Thursday to mark up an extenders bill for the dozens of tax break provisions that expired at the end of 2011, or that will expire at the end of this year.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has issued a release to provide information to audit committees about its inspection process and how they might use the inspection reports to question their auditing firms.

Employment in the private sector increased by 163,000 in July, with gains in businesses of all sizes, according to payroll giant ADP.

Audit and compliance technology maker ACL Services Ltd. and global information optimization software and service provider Datawatch Corporation formed a strategic alliance that will help provide audit, risk and compliance professionals with the ability to analyze data trapped in PDFs, HTML files, print files and other content-rich data sources.

The Spirit of Accounting

Top stories from the past month in audit and assurance.

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 has strengthened corporate governance and improved audit quality in the past decade, according to a new report by Ernst & Young, "The Sarbanes-Oxley Act at 10," which marks the 10-year anniversary of the landmark legislation.

While significant progress has been made in both technology and processes to establish best practices in audit management, a common pitfall remains for many organizations: disparate silos of information and business processes. These different workflows contribute to a new type of business risk -- the audit performance gap.

We officially crowned a Ms. July -- and are on the hunt for a Mr. or Ms. August, September, October and beyond, in our Accountant of the Month contest.

Firms have to choose a path in fighting commodization

Mobile trends drive opportunities and responsibilities for CPAs

Accounting firms with a burgeoning stable of small-business clients understand their need for attention -- to be both seen and heard.

In the engagement proposal process, the way a firm allocates time could be the difference between winning new business -- or losing out.

Since taxes based on income don't produce as much revenue during a recession as they do during good times, transaction taxes, including sales and use taxes, become even more important to a state's ability to fund its obligations.

An overview of recent accounting firm mergers

The Affordable Care Act is real. It's law. And it's moving forward. That's a fact. And, while so many businesses are figuring out how this change in health insurance law will affect them, many others are doing what Americans do best: figuring out how to profit.

Get to know Darlene Finzer, Accounting Today's inaugural Accountant of the Month