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The Center for Audit Quality and Audit Analytics teamed up on an analysis of 2014 audit committee disclosures in proxy statements to assess the effectiveness of the disclosures by public companies of their relationships with auditors and found that many public companies are suffering from disclosure overload.

Top 100 Firm Eide Bailly LLP, has agreed to add the Reno, Nev.-based firm Kafoury, Armstrong & Co. to its roster. The combination will be completed on Dec. 15, 2014.

Tunis has over 25 years of partner-level expertise with privately-owned businesses in the tri-state area, providing services to importers, wholesalers, manufacturers and internet retailers.

Top 100 Firm The Bonadio Group has agreed to merge with Testone, Marshall & Discenza. The deal is set to close on Jan.1, 2015.

From December 8 - 10, the AICPA will hold their Conference on Current SEC and PCAOB Developments, held at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C. Key speakers will include Daniel Gallagher, Commisioner of the SEC in Washington, D.C. and James Doty, chairman of the PCAOB in D.C., who will have a conversation session on Monday.

Compliance and data security have recently been in the spotlight, due to major breaches at Experian and Home Depot, among numerous others.

The U.S. House of Representatives will probably vote this week to revive dozens of lapsed tax breaks and extend them only through the end of this year, said a Republican member of the Ways and Means Committee.

As 2014 winds down, you may be able to help your clients kill two birds with one stone by combining routine portfolio rebalancing with tax loss harvesting.

Your peers' predictions for the next year in accounting

Tomorrow happens to be Giving Tuesday, a global day dedicated to giving back, and a pair of CPAs have some advice for those who are planning their end-of-year charitable giving.