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Mayer Hoffman McCann has elected Andrew Burczyk as president. Burczyk succeeds Bill Hancock, has served as president since 2002 and has 40 years of experience with the firm. Hancock, who is the CEO of the firm, will remain on board as chairman of the firm’s board of directors.

Check out the digital edition of the August 2015 issue of Accounting Today.

Damien Greathead of Receipt Bank talks about how accountants can use technology to spend more time with clients, in an interview with Accounting Technology editor-in-chief Danielle Lee.

Private sector employers added 185,000 jobs last month, according to payroll giant ADP, indicating some slackening in job growth, particularly in the manufacturing and energy industries.

A new research project by the Wisconsin School of Business - aimed at providing auditors, regulators, and policy-makers with a model for understanding and interpreting audit studies - is one of three projects to receive funding from the Center for Audit Quality, according to a press release from the school.

A bipartisan U.S. Senate bill that would revive and extend dozens of lapsed tax breaks would spur economic growth and cover about 11 percent of its own costs, according to Congress’s nonpartisan scorekeeper.

Wipfli announced its technology consulting practice has joined the NetSuite Solution Provider Program.

Nonprofit organizations make accounting errors at a relatively high rate, in part because they try to avoid devoting a high percentage of their funding to administrative costs, according to a new study.

Word that the U.S. Marine Corps had passed an audit of its books was such a cause for celebration that a ceremony was staged last year in a Pentagon hall usually reserved to honor battlefield bravery.

If the beneficiary of a deceased owner of an individual retirement account fails to comply with the post-death required minimum distribution rules and the other post-death IRA distribution rules, then the beneficiary can be subject to penalties from the Internal Revenue Service.