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More than a dozen staff members of CPA and business consultants Myers, Brettholtz & Company, PA and their families recently spent a day completing a United Way Day of Caring at Child Care of Southwest Florida's Joseph H. Messina Children’s Center in Fort Myers.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged the St. Joe Company, a Watersound, Fla.-based real estate developer and landowner, its former top executives, and two former accounting department directors, with improperly accounting for the declining value of its residential real estate developments during the financial crisis.

High-performing firms gain an advantage when they adopt single, integrated solutions, CCH Software chief Teresa Mackintosh told attendees of the company’s user conference.

Congratulations, you have posted that job opening to LinkedIn, CareerBuilder and every other website (or headhunter) you could conceivably think of. Now consider taking it down! Why?

The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board has introduced a new credential for accountants and other professionals who deal with sustainability issues.

The Senate Finance Committee held a hearing Tuesday to find out from Internal Revenue Service commissioner John Koskinen how his agency has responded to the committee’s recommendations in an August report on the scandal involving how the IRS reviewed applications for tax-exempt status by political groups.

Thomson Reuters has published a guide for tax professionals whose clients have been victimized by tax-related identity theft.

Marvell Technology Group Inc., a chipmaker that disclosed an internal investigation into its accounting last month, plunged to its lowest price in more than two years after saying PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP resigned as its external accounting firm.

The Illinois CPA Society announced on Tuesday that they're now accepting applications for the Mary T. Washington Wylie Internship Preparation Program. The program looks to help minority students interested in the CPA profession prepare for entry-level accounting internships.

When it comes to find ways to make your firm more attractive to employees, it makes sense to go straight to the horse’s mouth and ask your employees themselves.