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Smart Devine, a regional CPA firm in Philadelphia, is joining Top 100 firm Marcum LLP, based in New York.

A new Accountemps survey found that about one in three professionals become more productive as the holiday season approaches. Thirty-two percent of polled workers said they become more productive the week before a major holiday, while twenty-two percent of professionals reported that their output decreases.

Edison, Perry & Company PC, an accounting firm in Enterprise, Ore., will be joining regional CPA firm Eide Bailly LLP, on Jan. 11, 2016.

The U.S. Treasury Department plans to release additional guidance this week aimed at deterring corporate inversions, though it can’t stop such tax-avoidance moves without new authority from Congress, Secretary Jacob J. Lew said.

Free food during tax season is by far the most common perk offered at accounting firms, but it’s probably not doing staff any favors.

In contrast to the official government figures from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, small business employment remained relatively stagnant in October, according to Intuit, increasing only 0.01 percent.

Many accountants and valuation experts are anxiously attempting to predict the contents of the revised Section 2704 regulations from the IRS on the valuation of family limited partnerships and other family-controlled entities.

Accounting and financial reporting standards for state and local governments that address nonexchange transactions achieved their purpose, according to a new report.

Sales and use tax rates increased slightly across the country in the third quarter of the year, according to a new report.

The American Institute of CPAs has introduced Not-for-Profit (NFP) Certificate II, offering a second level of certification for CPAs who service or work for nonprofit organizations.