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 BDO Acquires Fort Worth Accounting Firm

May 13, 2014 

BDO Acquires Fort Worth Accounting Firm

The national accounting and business services firm BDO USA is acquiring the Fort Worth, Texas-based firm of Hartman Leito & Bolt, the firms announced on Wednesday.

 FAF Issues Annual Report

May 8, 2014 

FAF Issues Annual Report

The Financial Accounting Foundation (FAF), which oversees FASB and GASB, has issued its 2013 Annual Report, detailing the organization's activities and key issues during the past year.

 IFRS Foundation Seeks Advisory Council Members

April 30, 2014 

IFRS Foundation Seeks Advisory Council Members

The Trustees of the IFRS Foundation are seeking applications for membership of the IFRS Advisory Council, after the terms of a number of its members expire at the end of 2014. The primary objective of the Advisory Council is to provide a forum where the IASB and the Trustees consults individuals and representatives of organizations…

 Nominees Announced for 2014 CPA Practice Advisor Innovation Awards

April 21, 2014 

Nominees Announced for 2014 CPA Practice Advisor Innovation Awards

The nominees for the 2014 CPA Practice Advisor Tax & Accounting Technology Innovation Awards have been chosen. As the pinnacle of recognition for technology vendors serving the tax and accounting profession, the awards recognize exceptional product development, breakthrough technologies, state of the art design and implementation, and cutting edge concepts that help accounting professionals and…

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April 21, 2014 

What SMBs Want from Their Accountant – Have You Asked?

We’re in the middle of a fundamental shift – from client-centric accounting, where clients do their own bookkeeping and then send the records (often full of errors) to the tax preparer once a year – to an accountant-centric model, where accountants use cloud-based tools to provide accounting services as well as higher level consulting services.…

Doug Sleeter

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April 17, 2014 

New Solution Designed to Solve SAP Data Access Challenges

The new version of ACL Direct Link for SAP ERP and SAP CRM, an SAP-certified data extraction add-on for ACL Analytics (AN) and ACL Analytics Exchange (AX) helps professionals who are struggling to gain access to transactional SAP data necessary to test controls and ensure regulatory compliance under Sarbanes-Oxley and other financial requirements.

 Sharyn Maggio Named Co-Chair of AICPA Divorce Practice Conference

April 17, 2014 

Sharyn Maggio Named Co-Chair of AICPA Divorce Practice Conference

A partner with the accounting firm Marcum LLP has been selected to co-chair the 2014 AICPA/AAML National Conference on Divorce. Sharyn Maggio, an Advisory Services Partner in the Roseland and Neptune, NJ, offices of Marcum will lead the the biennial conference of the leading organizations for CPAs and divorce law practitioners. The conference will take…

 CEO Survey: Minnesota a “Good Place for Business”

April 16, 2014 

CEO Survey: Minnesota a “Good Place for Business”

Five years since the bottom of the Great Recession, stock prices are at record highs, business sentiment has improved and hiring appears to be accelerating. The annual survey of CEOs by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) indicates that two-thirds of the chief executives polled plan to add employees this year. Meanwhile, the Minnesota economy is growing faster than…