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A pair of surveys on CFO sentiment pointed to positive expectations for the economy.

Lawmakers in Congress have included a fourth renewal on the ban on Internet access taxes as part of a spending deal to avert a government shutdown.

Peters, who works in the firm’s human resources group, is being honored as one of SmartCEO’s Mid-Atlantic management all-stars.

The Institute of Management Accountants has been named a full voting member of the International Integrated Reporting Council.

Congress has cut the Internal Revenue Service’s budget once again, reducing the tax agency’s fiscal year 2015 budget by 3 percent compared to this year’s funding level.

KPMG International said it realized record revenues globally of US$24.82 billion for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2014, a 6.3 percent increase over the previous year in terms of local currency.

The University of Miami School of Business Administration announced on Monday that it will begin offering a new, online Master of Professional Accounting program beginning in May 2015. The fully online program is designed for those with no prior accounting experience or coursework, and will prepare students for careers in corporate financial accounting, taxation, and management accounting.

As the ITA kicked off its Fall 2014 Collaborative Dec. 7-9, the independent association of consulting firms and technology vendors announced new membership.

Officials from the Financial Accounting Standards Board and the International Accounting Standards Board spoke about the path forward on harmonizing U.S. GAAP with International Financial Reporting Standards as the two boards near the end of their convergence efforts.

The other day I spent an hour drafting a long email detailing out the errors I picked up on in a client’s balance sheet.