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The National Association of State Boards of Accountancy’s Center for the Public Trust has introduced an Ethical Leadership Training and Certification for business professionals.

Montana State University announced this week that Anne Christensen, accounting professor at the University's Jake Jabs College of Business and Entrepreneurship, has been elected president of the American Accounting Association’s Board of Directors. Christensen’s election will see a one-year term beginning this August, followed by a one-year term as president and another as past-president.

REDW LLC, one of the Southwest’s 10 largest accounting firms, has elected Steve Cogan as managing principal, succeeding Ron Rivera, who has served as firm-wide managing principal for the past 15 years.

Sikich LLP plans to acquire the assets of Brockman, Coats, Gedelian & Co., BCG Systems, Inc. and BCG Wealth Advisors, LLC in the biggest acquisition ever for the Illinois-based firm.

Highlights of some of our favorite tax-related blogs from the past week.

Many small business owners who received tax refunds plan to invest the money in their businesses, according to a new survey.

The Vatican’s Holy See has suspended its contract with PricewaterhouseCoopers but stressed that the suspension is not due to problems with PwC’s work.

As a general rule, the cost of commercial real estate improvements is recovered over a painfully long period of 39 years via straight line depreciation only.

Rebecca Newton-Clarke, a senior editor/author at Thomson Reuters’ Checkpoint, discusses some of the sales tax issues that are relevant to e-commerce, including nexus, in this video.

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