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SS&C merges in Southett & Co.; and Regier Carr & Monroe merges with Cross and Robinson.

The American Institute of CPAs’ Accounting and Review Services Committee has issued an interpretation on reviews of financial statements.

Google saved $2.4 billion in worldwide taxes in 2014 by shifting 10.7 billion euros ($12 billion) in international revenues to a Bermuda shell company, Alphabet Inc., the parent of the Web-search provider, regulatory filings show.

The annual battle of tax preparers is nasty, brutish, and short. TurboTax, which dominates online filing, and H&R Block Inc., with 10,000 U.S. locations, have three months to win over taxpayers before this year's April 18 deadline.

Accounting Degree Review, an online resource for accounting education and related topics, recently released its ranking of the 30 most affordable graduate accounting programs for 2016. The ranking factored in accreditation and tuition costs for out-of-state students enrolling in the 2015-2016 academic year.

A roundup of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

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

The Internal Revenue Service has been unable to get control of rampant identity theft this tax season, despite high-profile efforts to confront the problem with the help of private industry.

You’re an exceptional accounting firm. You deliver high-quality service, operate efficiently and keep information up-to-date and scrupulously accurate. And yet in spite of the immense value you bring to your customers, the increasingly competitive market in which you operate is making it harder than ever to differentiate your services.