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The Center for Audit Quality and the Auditing Section of the American Accounting Association are providing access to audit firm employees for four academic research projects.

Scott Fleszar of Thomson Reuters Tax & Accounting discusses how accountants and tax practitioners can continue to provide value to their clients as advisors, in an interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Dan Hood.

The candy-maker Mars Inc. rolled out a tongue-in-cheek video this week in time for Tax Day to commemorate a 2013 Tax Court decision in which the court ruled against a taxpayer who tried to write off the cost of a Snickers bar as a tax deduction.

With graduation right around the corner for the nation's college seniors, landing that ever-important first job should be the first order of business off-campus. However, a résumé shouldn't be the only weapon at a job-seeker's disposal.

It’s no surprise that tax rates affect economic behavior.

The U.S. House of Representatives voted to let taxpayers deduct state sales taxes on their federal returns, a victory for residents of Texas, Florida and other states that lack an income tax.

Accountants’ top technology-related priority is preventing security threats, according to the 25th Anniversary North American Top Technology Initiatives Survey.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has entered into a cooperative arrangement with the Auditors’ Public Oversight Authority of the Ministry for the National Economy of Hungary to oversee audit firms subject to both regulators’ jurisdictions.

A new study of consumer spending of tax refunds finds a correlation between how the refunds are perceived and whether taxpayers opt to spend the money right away or save it for later.

The U.S. House voted to repeal the 99-year-old U.S. estate tax amid a partisan clash over whether the government should break up concentrated wealth or make it easier to pass along assets to the next generation.