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January 11, 2017 

The new award categories include the Rising Star Award, Excellence in Healthcare Innovation Award and the Venture Firm of the Year Award. These three new award categories join the current roster of awards that includes the Lifetime Achievement in ...

January 11, 2017 

The AICPA’s Financial Reporting Executive Committee (FinREC) has issued four new working drafts of accounting issues related to the implementation of Accounting Standards Update (ASU) No. 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers – for ...

January 11, 2017 

More than one-third (35 percent) of CFOs cited lacking attention to detail or sloppy work as the most annoying behavior by coworkers.

January 11, 2017 

It is estimated that in 2017, more than $94 billion will be invested in security solutions, per industry analyst forecasts, yet nearly half of organizations report having had a breach either internal or external in the last twelve months.

January 10, 2017 

In assessing the compliance burdens of the current tax code, the Taxpayer Advocate Service (TAS) analyzed IRS data and determined that individuals and businesses spend about six billion hours a year complying with the code’s filing requirements ...

January 10, 2017 

The Foundation awards scholarships to undergraduates who are U.S. or Canadian citizens majoring in accounting at an accredited two- or four-year college or university in the United States. Since it was formed in 1969, the NSA Scholarship Foundation ...

January 10, 2017 

The AICPA, CIMA and the Management Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association (AAA), have honored Bryan R. Stikeleather, Assistant Professor at the University of South Carolina’s Darla Moore School of Business, with the 2017 Greatest ...

January 10, 2017 

The AICPA, the American Society of Appraisers (ASA) and RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) are offering a new credential that will enhance the quality, consistency and transparency of fair value measurement results in financial reporting.

January 10, 2017 

The acquisition strengthens the market leadership position of Ryan’s Commercial Property Tax practice in Oklahoma and adds a team of seasoned property tax professionals to the largest property tax group in North America. The acquisition also adds a ...

January 10, 2017 

How much tax should U.S. corporations pay? Even as a national legislative consensus seems to be growing that the current federal statutory rate of 35% is too high, a large swath of public opinion, particularly on the political left, contends that ...

January 10, 2017 

The issue: In a merger where each firm signs an NDA, there’s a provision that precludes the buyer from soliciting the seller’s clients, with language similar to this:

January 9, 2017 

A regulation to be implemented January 31 in the U.S. requiring accounting firms to identify the principal engagement partner in corporate audits should be a solid plus for investors and regulators, a new study suggests.