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Raoul Weil, who once ran UBS AG’s global wealth-management business, was cleared at trial of tax conspiracy despite the bank’s historic admission in 2009 that it helped thousands of U.S. clients abuse Swiss bank secrecy to cheat the Internal Revenue Service.

Shamberg brings nearly two decades of experience serving clients in a range of international, federal, and state and local tax planning and controversy matters.

Accounting Today presented the Best Accounting Firms to Work For awards at its annual Growth & Profitability Summit in Boca Raton, Fla., on Monday.

Top 100 Firm Wipfli LLP added Assurity River Group to the firm. Upon completion of the acquisition, Assurity’s associates will join Wipfli’s Risk Advisory and Forensics Services Practice.

On Monday, the second day of events at the 5th Annual Growth + Profitability Summit in Boca Raton, Fla., Peter Burke, President of Best Companies Group gave the first of three presentations on key lessons taken from Accounting Today’s “Best Firms to Work For.”

The EntryPoint team will join KPMG’s Trade and Customs Practice enabling KPMG to provide both regulatory and technology consulting under one umbrella.

I’ve been around a long time and did some really great things. I’ve also made some mistakes. The mistakes linger on my mind more than many of the great things, and I am sharing some of the mistakes here.

The global economy entered a “dangerous period of uncertainty” during the third quarter of 2014, according to a new survey by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and the Institute of Management Accountants.

Despite Sarbanes-Oxley requirements, audit committee influence over hiring the outside auditor and setting the audit fees remains more of a hope than a reality, according to a new study.

The majority of CPA firms experienced modest revenue increases in 2013, reflecting either stable or higher profits, according to a new survey by the American Institute of CPAs and the Texas Society of CPAs.