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Accounting Scholarship Programs

AccountingWEB has compiled a list of scholarship opportunities for accounting students.
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Community News

CPA Argiz named president of Orange Bowl Committee

Antonio L. Argiz, CEO and managing partner at Miami-based CPA firm Morrison, Brown, Argiz & Farra LLP, recently fulfilled a longtime dream. The 48-year resident of Florida was named the 72nd president and chairman of the Orange Bowl Committee.
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Education & Careers

Accounting and xTREME? Rarely found in the same sentence

The xTREME Games include xTAX, short for "Extreme Tax," and xACT, short for “Extreme Accounting.” Both are case competitions that expose students to real tax and accounting situations.
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Community News

CRI announces merger with Davis Monk

Carr, Riggs & Ingram LLC, an Enterprise, AL-based accounting and consulting firm, yesterday announced a merger with Davis, Monk & Co., a Gainesville, FL-based accounting firm.
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Community News

Kaufman, Rossin & Co. acquries London Witte & Company

Miami-based Kaufman, Rossin & Co., one of the largest independent accounting firms in Florida, have announced that London Witte & Company has joined the firm.
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Community News

CPA Firm Roth Murphy Sanford Merges with Carr, Riggs & Ingram

New Orleans CPA firm Roth Murphy Sanford L.L.P. (RMS) has merged with Carr, Riggs & Ingram, LLC (CRI), the fourth largest accounting firm in the Southeast – a move that expands CRI’s footprint to six states while enhancing public accounting and management consulting services throughout Southeast Louisiana.
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Community News

CCR LLP Acquires Orlando CPA and Consulting Firm

CCR LLP (“CCR”), one of the nation’s top 100 accounting (as named by Accounting Today magazine) announced that it has combined operations with Geller, Ragans, James, Oppenheimer & Creel, a full-service CPA and consulting firm based in Orlando, Fla.
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Tax

IRS rulings provide Section 7216 guidance for tax return preparers

Last week the IRS issued two Section 7216 rulings providing guidance to tax return preparers. Each of these rulings covered three issues relating to situations in which preparers will not be liable for criminal or civil penalties under IRC sections 7216 and 6713.
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Community News

Alan Deichler named new president of CPAmerica International

Alan Deichler, a sales and marketing executive with more than 35 years of corporate experience, is the new president of CPAmerica International, one of the world’s largest associations of independent CPA firms.
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Tax

Unemployment taxes may double or even triple in 2010

State unemployment trust funds have fallen to such a low level that rate increases may be required to rebuild their balances even when employment improves.
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Technology

Going into labour: Problem-solving with QuickBooks

A Canadian cloth diaper company using QuickBooks solved the problem of incorporating labour costs into the products they create.
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Community News

Two South Florida firms merge; Friedman expands NJ base

Two South Florida firms have become one, and New York City-based Friedman LLP and Bagell, Josephs, Levine and Co. LLC of Marlton, NJ, will join forces.
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Tax

Madoff’s Florida luxuries bring in $2 million for his victims

Items once owned by infamous Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff are being auctioned off to provide some restitution to victims.
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Education & Careers

Need more CPE hours? Consider transient training

If you're feeling the grind of accumulating 40 hours of CPE by the end of the year, it's not too late to incorporate learning with some fun in the sun by 12/31.
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Practice

How to be a hero to your clients

"The job of the accountant is to make the client successful and more profitable. As their trusted advisor, it’s the accountant’s responsibility to go the extra mile and help turn obstacles into opportunities for clients."
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Sleeter Group announces its annual QuickBooks Awesome Add-Ons

Winners of the 2010 “Awesome Add-ons for QuickBooks” were announced today at the Next Generation Accounting Solutions Conference in Orlando, Florida.
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A&A

Liability insurance: Covering business interruptions when they happen

Disasters have plagued mankind for as long as we have records, and for just as long, smart people have sought ways to protect themselves against the liability of the unexpected.
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Robert Harris elected as new chairman of the AICPA

Robert R. Harris, CPA, who served on both the board of directors and governing Council of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, has become the Institute's chairman. His term is one year.
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Community News

Crowe Horwath interns collect thousands of items for charities

Oakbrook, IL-based Crowe Horwath LLP has announced that its summer interns collected more than 3,500 books, toys and shoes to benefit charitable organizations across 15 communities in eight states.
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Community News

INSIDE Public Accounting announces its annual Best of the Best Firms

INSIDE Public Accounting’s Best of the Best Firm’s recognition honors 25 firms annually for their wise management and superior operational performance in fiscal and management metrics based on over 50 criteria.
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Even though any accounting auditor would tell you it seems like there are an awful lot of tax accountants out there, surely one-third of the country isn't made up of tax preparers, so it's rather startling news to learn that one-third of Americans like to do their taxes. Who knew?
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