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The Internal Revenue Service is reminding tax preparers that they need to complete 15 hours of continuing education, starting this year, under new requirements, and has posted a list of approved providers.
February 10 -
Renninger Named a Partner at Herbein Wealth Management
February 10 -
The IRS effort to combat identity theft couldn’t have come at a better time. With the IRS closing in on its goal of 80 percent e-filed returns (aided in part by the e-filing mandates on return preparers), the last thing it needs is a decline in confidence in the system. Yet that’s just what has happened, according to a survey commissioned by tax software developer Taxsoftware.com.
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A majority of the American public believes its more difficult for young adults today to pay for college, find a job, purchase a home, or save for the future, compared to their parents generation.
February 9 -
The National Association of State Boards of Accountancy is awarding $25,000 in grants to academicians and post-doctoral researchers to research educational issues that affect CPAs, the public accounting professions and the responsibility of state accounting boards to protect the public.
February 9 -
Michigan-based CPA and wealth advisory firm Godfrey Hammel, Danneels & Company and Indiana-based CPA firm Katz, Sapper & Miller have teamed up to form GHD/KSM Medical Consultants to provide financial, accounting, tax and business advisory services to health and medical industry clients.
February 9 -
Diamond Foods Inc removed top management after a probe by its audit committee found that the company improperly accounted for payments to walnut growers, sending its shares down 40 percent in after-hours trading.
February 9 -
The Internal Revenue Service has released guidance and forms that can be used to claim a recently expanded tax credit for employers who hire veterans, with newly streamlined certification requirements.
February 9 -
SaaS-based sales tax automation service provider Avalara has formed a partnership with accounting and enterprise resource planning software developer Open Systems Inc., with the companies integrating their products.
February 9 -
The House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing on the interaction of tax and financial accounting rules on tax reform.
February 9 -
For most accounting firms, the Internet is game changing.
February 8 -
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Intuit has made several updates to its Tax Research and Tax Import for Lacerte and ProSeries products, in response to a recent survey of accounting professionals.
February 8 -
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has imposed a $2 million civil penalty against Ernst & Young, the largest civil money penalty to date in the PCAOBs 10-year history, and censured the firm for audit failure, while sanctioning four of E&Ys current and former partners.
February 8 -
Accounting and business consulting firm Hill, Barth & King, has acquired Carson & Co. LLC, CPAs, of Sewickley, Pa., expanding the firm’s presence in Pennsylvania and construction industry clientele.
February 8 -
A pair of Democratic senators who chair influential committees have introduced legislation aimed at closing a variety of tax loopholes to reduce the budget deficit.
February 8 -
Technology consultancy Arxis Technology Inc., a major Sage and SAP partner, has joined the Intacct channel, adding to the growing line of cloud-based business technologies the firm represents.
February 8 -
The Internal Revenue Service has released an expanded version of its smartphone application, IRS2Go, with a new YouTube video feature and additional tax help for taxpayers.
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