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The Financial Planning Association (FPA), Ameriprise Financial and the Certified Financial Planner (CFP) Board announced today that students and CFP Board-registered universities can now register for the 2015 Financial Planning Challenge.

More accountants like to solve problems than crunch numbers, according to a new survey.

A House subcommittee held a hearing Wednesday on the estate tax after one of its members introduced legislation to repeal it.

The Republican leaders of Congress’s two main tax committees, House Ways and Means Committee chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and Senate Finance Committee chairman Orin Hatch, R-Utah, have written a letter to Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew urging him to avoid pursuing an executive action by President Obama on tax reform.

The Internal Revenue Service is canceling the two days of unpaid employee furloughs it had planned in response to budget cuts.

Hank Wolfson has been named chief operating officer, a new position at Gray, Gray & Gray. Wolfson will assume internal administrative duties for the rapidly growing accounting and business advisory firm.

Sandy McGee has joined Vrakas/Blum, S.C. chief operating officer. McGee will run the business side of the firm and will undertake all facets of financial management, human resources, marketing, technology and information systems, general administration and facility and operations management.

Armanino released a Forecast Management solution for Microsoft Dynamics CRM, also compatible with all CRM solutions, enabling sales and operations executives to develop detailed sales forecasts.

Wake Forest University School of Business announced on Monday that they will hold an informative lecture on March 24, according to the Winston-Salem Journal. The lecture will be focused on the challenges of creating global accounting standards.

The European Union launched a new salvo in its battle against tax evasion with a slate of proposals that would make it harder for companies to avoid taxes.