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  • Top of the News

  • Full agenda at Council

    By Bill Carlino

    The road to IFRS, ongoing regulatory reform and sustainability headline AICPA confab

  • Becoming your own boss (Unabridged)

    By Liz Gold

    Opportunities abound for young CPAs venturing out on their own

  • IN BRIEF

    IASB not waiting for U.S.; Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu revenues hit by economy; and FASB launches nonprofit advisory committee.

  • The tax staff crunch goes on

    By Roger Russell

    Good help will be as hard to find as ever next tax season

  • Broker-dealers weather the crisis

    By Richard Stolz

    What they did - and what they're doing differently

  • Opinion

  • Socially secure?

    By Bill Carlino, Editor-in-Chief

    Social Security reform, once among the hopeful centerpieces of the George W. Bush presidency, has been buried and long forgotten under a slew of proposals such as ObamaCare.

  • LETTER: Miller & Bahnson on target

    I could not find a fit in the three large firms where I invested my career over the past seven years, and it took an abrupt change and my reflecting to realize why I couldn't fit in.

  • Tensions are rising from IRS victory in Textron case

    By Sara Shanahan

    The First Circuit Court of Appeals' ruling in U.S. v. Textron is creating a lot of uncertainty.

  • Crisis Center

  • CRISIS NEWS

    Crowe unveils app for ARRA; and internal audit staff impacted by recession.

  • Out from underneath

    By Howard Hook

    Investor strategies for capitalizing on the economic downturn

  • Tax Practice

  • TAX NEWS

    Manual refunds error-prone; judge backs GE in IRS dispute; IRS ID prevention efforts fall short; IRS issued over $20 million in erroneous refunds.

  • Battle lines form over LIFO

    By Roger Russell

    Lawmakers and industry are choosing sides on repeal efforts

  • TAX STRATEGY: Developments in limited liability companies

    By George G. Jones and Mark A. Luscombe

    Limited liability companies continue to grow in popularity as a choice of business entity.

  • IRS mulls limiting sole-proprietor loss deductions

    About a quarter of all sole-proprietor businesses report losses on their tax returns, but many are doing so by understating their income or overstating their expenses, leading to billions of dollars in lost tax revenue, according to a new government report.

  • Low inflation eases tax bracket changes

    Tax rate brackets and various tax benefits will remain unchanged or change only slightly in 2010 due to low inflation, and many pension plan limitations will remain unchanged, according to the Internal Revenue Service.

  • Assurance

  • ASSURANCE BRIEFS

    Companies want SEC to approve IFRS roadmap.

  • ACCA: Standards needed for climate change

    The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants recommends in a new report that environmental regulators should work with international accounting standard-setters to develop a universal climate change reporting standard for organizations of all sizes.

  • SEC 5-yr. plan backs global standards

    The Securities and Exchange Commission has released a draft of a five-year strategic plan that calls for a single set of high-quality global accounting standards.

  • THE SPIRIT OF ACCOUNTING: The AICPA and G-20 on convergence: Lots of supply, not much demand

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

    We don't know about the rest of you in the profession's rank and file, but we're feeling steamrollered over "convergence," a code word meaning hastily dumping the independent Financial Accounting Standards Board and embracing the vulnerable International Accounting Standards Board.

  • Financial Planning

  • PFP BRIEFS

    Better advice could reduce retirement plan fees; IRS creates retirement plan tool for small business; and change to Roth rules prompts financial consultations.

  • When every car is a purple car

    By Garrett R. D'Alessandro and Steven Denike

    Asset allocation and diversification in an atypical market

  • Technology

  • New tools to help clients wake up from the sales and use tax nightmare

    By Ted Needleman

    Software systems for handling sales and use tax are better - and more important to your clients - than ever

  • TECH BRIEFS

    FASB beefs up XBRL features in Codification; new Simply Accounting 2010; CPA2Biz site helps firms expand client services; Inovium upgrades billing and collections system.

  • BOOMER'S BLUEPRINT: Hold your partners accountable

    By L. Gary Boomer

    Managing an accounting firm is not easy for a number of reasons, not only because of the nature of ownership, but also because partners do not usually commit to allowing themselves to be managed.

  • Lean, mean and ready for the future

    By Daniel Hood

    The 2009 Technology Pacesetters position themselves for recovery

  • Practice Resources

  • PRACTICE NEWS

    California adopts 150-hour rule; Thomson Reuters launches new marketing blog; AmerInst signs liability insurance deal; Plante & Moran partner in national calendar; Barfield Murphy named top small workplace.

  • Searching for the right model

    By Gale Crosley

    In her first 'Pathways to Growth' column, Gale Crosley discovers the fundamentals of a strong model for firm growth

  • A lesson from South of the Border

    By Barry Friedman

    Driving targeted clients and prospects to your Web site is critical

  • Gender-friendly partnerships

    By Paul Finkle

    Solving a longstanding challenge for CPA firms

  • Learning how to make rain

    By Brian Swanson

    Start developing your business development skills

  • Accounting Tomorrow

  • Tomorrow's news

    By Liz Gold

    In case you were wondering, Grant Thornton chief executive Ed Nusbaum has an iPod. And he loves it.

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