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What will Barack Obama do with his $1.4 million Nobel Peace Prize?
If President Obama follows the examples set by most Nobel Prize recipients, he'll donate all or most of the prize money to qualified not-for-profit organizations.
Sports celebrities and their tax troubles
The more money people make, in many cases, the more trouble they seem to have turning over what is owed to Uncle Sam.
The end of Microsoft Office Accounting
Microsoft is formally backing away from the small business accounting market after announcing that the Office Accounting program will no longer be distributed after November 16, 2009.
Like it or not, accountants must be technology consultants
Accountants are their clients’ most trusted business advisors, and often that means that clients will turn to accountants for technology advice.
Wanted: Taxpayers who want to claim their refunds
The Internal Revenue Service is looking for taxpayers who are due to receive a combined $123.5 million in the form of 107,831 refund checks that were returned to the IRS by the U.S. Postal Service due to mailing address errors.
IRS reports two out of three individuals using e-file
Individuals e-filed a record 95 million federal income tax returns during 2009, up almost 6 percent from last year’s total of nearly 90 million.
California tightens restrictions on CPAs
It’s not often that a bill passes unanimously. But when the California legislature voted on AB117, a bill that will regulate the state’s CPAs, there was not a single “no” vote cast.
Web site strategy development: A key decision
When an accounting firm is ready to build its first Web site or upgrade an existing site, the first analysis should be the strategic purpose of the Web site.
Philadelphia CPA firm announces national SAS 70 audit partnership
Philadelphia-based Briggs, Bunting & Dougherty, LLP and Chief Security Officers, LLC announce a strategic partnership that will enable the two firms to provide seamless SAS 70 audit services for third-party service organizations across the country.
New SEC enforcer details reform measures to avert failures like Madoff
Robert Khuzami, a former federal prosecutor who joined the Securities and Exchange Commission in March as director of enforcement, ate some humble pie in front of a congressional panel last week [Sept. 10] for SEC failures he had no part in. READ MORE >>
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