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• Top of the News



• Better ways to get paid

  By Liz Gold

  Start with being clear about what you're charging

• 2010 Tax Season Preview: Tax season like no other

  By Roger Russell

  Expect an unprecedented demand for tax advice

• Firms jogging, not sprinting, to IFRS

  By Bill Carlino

  Preparation a work in progress

• IN BRIEF

  SEC approves engagement review standard; Moss Adams chair to lead private companies panel.

• CPA firms cautiously optimistic

  By Liz Gold

  Survey shows firms expect some growth in 2010

• Mazars in talks to merge with Weiser

  Multinational accounting and advisory firm Mazars Group has been in talks with New York-based accounting firm Weiser LLP in a merger that would create the sixth largest accounting firm in the world.

• Opinion

• One year later

  By Bill Carlino, Editor-in-Chief

  A scorecard on the Obama presidency

• LETTER: Keep the politics coming

• LETTER: Top 100 People respond

• Tax Practice

• TAX NEWS

  IRS loosens rules on use of taxpayer info; IRS widens disclosure window.

• Tax season newbies: You will survive

  By Brian Swanson

  A veteran preparer recalls the lessons of his first filing season

• New reporting rules for passive activities force group decisions

  By George G. Jones and Mark A. Luscombe

  As part of the IRS's continuing efforts to require greater disclosure of tax positions and strategies on returns, it recently released new, mandatory disclosure rules for grouping passive activities.

• Assurance

• ASSURANCE NEWS

  AICPA offers fair value investment guidance; California toughens CPA requirements.

• FASAB faces independence challenge

  By Glenn Cheney, Washington, D.C.

  The Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board is facing several interrelated controversial issues that may ultimately determine the financial viability of the U.S. government.

• FASAB faces independence challenge (UNABRIDGED)

  By Glenn Cheney, Washington, D.C.

  The Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board is facing several interrelated controversial issues that may ultimately determine the financial viability of the U.S. government.

• The Spirit of Accounting: Deja vu all over again

  By Paul B.W. Miller and Paul R. Bahnson

  Convergence and the 150-hour rule

• Financial Planning

• PFP NEWS

  Moss Adams merges in Rowling Dold; tax refunds can go into savings bonds; TAC offers financial scholarships to vets.

• Tax credits for college credits

  By Richard Stolz

  Tax strategies lighten college tuition burden - to a point

• Technology

• TECH NEWS

  Red Wing adds module to CenterPoint Accounting; PKF joins Dynamics network; ADP to acquire DO2; new records management product.

• Better secure than sorry

  By Seth Fineberg

  New regs make data security a priority

• Boomer's Blueprint: Don't retreat - climb the summit

  By L. Gary Boomer

• Practice Resources

• M&A WATCH

• The CPA with the soul of an artist

  By Gale Crosley

  An accountant finds his niche right where he left it

• Become a better leader in 2010

  By August Aquila

  It's unfortunate that they do not teach a leadership course in business school. As accountants, we know tax law and accounting pronouncements, but what do we learn about leadership?

• Discovering tax, and themselves

  By Liz Gold, New York

  The fourth year of Ernst & Young's Discover Tax Leadership Conference drew 102 minority college students from all over the country to New York (braving the cold) to learn about tax - and themselves.

• Secrets and bonuses

  By Gene Marks

  Everybody has secrets.

• NEW PRODUCTS: SOFTWARE

• NEW PRODUCTS: BOOKS

• PEOPLE

• FIRMS

• Accounting Tomorrow

• Tomorrow's news

  By Liz Gold

  Calling all accounting majors (and the professors who love them)!

• Taking a hard line on soft skills

  By Krista Remer and Jennifer Wilson

  Generational Viewpoints: Building the skill set of the future