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Yahoo! Inc. failed to get the advance approval it sought from U.S. officials for a plan to spin off its stake in Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. without incurring taxes.

BDO USA has agreed to pay $2.1 million to settle charges from the Securities and Exchange Commission that the firm dismissed a number of red flags and issued false and misleading unqualified audit opinions about the financial statements of a staffing services company, General Employment Enterprises.

Get Thomas Rustici talking about the current state of U.S. economic policymaking, and the adjectives start flowing: Corrupt, worst, wasteful, bloated, dangerous.

The New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants (NJCPA) is announced its “30 Under 30” list on Tuesday, consisting of 30 accounting professionals and NJCPA members making a name for themselves in the New Jersey accounting landscape and beyond.

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

Proposed regulations released by the Treasury Department in January provide guidance on the definition of internal use software for the R&D tax credit.

The most influential people in the field of accounting, as chosen by their peers (slideshow version)

The most influential people in the field of accounting, as chosen by their peers (text version)

Now that Labor Day has come and gone, back-to-school sales tax holidays are over for most consumers, but accountants still have to deal with reporting what’s taxable and what’s not.

Salaries for accountants are expected to increase next year by an average of 2.4 percent, according to a 2016 Salary Guide released Tuesday by the recruiting firm Accounting Principals.