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Integrated Business Systems announced it has partnered with Acumatica to sell its cloud-based accounting software and develop a new, property management-specific system module.

Sage North America announced a new Sage Net Promoter Score Program for partners.

The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants has produced a new series of reports in collaboration with the Economic and Social Research Council investigating the dynamics between corporate culture and regulations and the link to dysfunctional behavior in organizations.

Small and midsize accounting practices are generally optimistic about growth this year, particularly in the area of advisory and tax services, according to a new global survey.

Fifty-six percent of Maryland CFOs, controllers and management accountants said they spend less than 50 percent of their time on traditional accounting and financial reporting functions, according to a recent poll by the Maryland Association of CPAs.

The American Institute of CPAs submitted a letter last week to the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department recommending relief for surviving spouses who would like to elect portability of their deceased spouse’s unused estate tax exemption.

The American Institute of CPAs sent top tax lawmakers on Capitol Hill a package of 34 legislative proposals Tuesday that the AICPA believes promote simplicity and fairness in the tax code.

The CPA Consultants’ Alliance has approved a slate of new officers following CPACA’s annual meeting in Tampa, Fla., and issued a new report on the most pressing issues for 2015 for CPA consultants.

A majority of Indiana CFOs who are also CPAs see positive indicators for growth of their company and industry, and encouraging signs for the local and state economy, although the outlook for the U.S. economy was not quite as bright.

The Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Ireland and the South African Institute of Public Accountants have signed a memorandum of understanding establishing a partnership to distribute an online CPA Certificate in International Public Sector Accounting Standards Financial Reporting in South Africa.

Socius has joined the NetSuite Solution Provider Program, adding the cloud-based ERP and omnichannel commerce software to its portfolio of Microsoft, Sage and Syspro solutions.

The Ohio Society of CPAs has begun providing a series of “micro” learning courses for CPAs packaged in 10-minute modules.

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Regulation of the CPA profession in the U.S. needs a transformation.

The American Institute of CPAs’ Auditing Standards Board has issued a new attestation standard for agreed-upon procedures engagements related to asset-backed securitizations.

The American Institute of CPAs is expressing support for a proposed accounting standards update that would require investment companies that act as “feeder funds” for other investment companies to provide better disclosures of those investments on their financial statements.

Dr. Larzette Hale, who was the first Black American female to become a CPA in the state of Georgia and the first to earn a PhD in accounting, has died.

The Rhode Island Society of CPAs is trying to re-imagine the traditional financial statement.

The American Institute of CPAs sent a comment letter Friday to the Internal Revenue Service about two interpretive issues.