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Telephone scammers may target students and parents during the back-to-school season and demand payments for such non-existent taxes as the “Federal Student Tax,” the IRS has warned.

Barfield, Murphy, Shank & Smith plans to expand its footprint in Alabama by combining with Himmelwright, Huguley & Boles, a CPA firm in the Auburn-Opelika area, on January 1 next year.

T. Rowe Price Group Inc. sued Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. alleging top executives used a secret network of pharmacies, deceptive pricing, reimbursement practices and accounting tricks to hide its branded drugs from generic competition and artificially inflate revenue and profit.

Becker Professional Education, subsidiary of the DeVry Education Group, announced on Thursday that Kenneth Koskay will be joining the company as senior director of Global Accounts. Koskay will lead a team of sales representatives focused on growing Becker’s Continuing Professional Education (CPE) product line.

The American Institute of CPAs is proposing to change the current peer review report so it clearly indicates if a Single Audit was chosen.

The Oregon Society of CPAS (OSCPA) Educational Foundation, in affiliation with the OSCPA, recently announced its scholarship award recipients for the 2016-17 academic year. Scholarships range from $2,000 to $3,000, for a total of $106,000 awarded to 49 students.

A Democratic super PAC has come up with a new way to try to get Donald Trump’s tax information: by filing a Freedom of Information Act request with the Internal Revenue Service.

The rules for claiming net operating losses to offset income tax liabilities can vary from state to state and are proving to be a big challenge for many companies, especially as both the economy and corporate profitability improve.

Cloud accounting provider Xero debuted a number of new products and offerings at its user conference, Xerocon, held here this week.

If you walked into a Mercedes automobile dealership and the sales person greeted you by asking, “What kind of Kia do you want to buy today?” you just might be a little perturbed. This is how many of our clients see us.