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PwC announced it has expanded its Data Protection and Privacy practice within its Risk Assurance division, adding team members and service offerings.

The American Institute of CPAs’ Auditing Standards Board has issued a third exposure draft resulting from its Attest Clarity Project, in an effort to address concerns about the clarity, length and complexity of the attestation standards for CPAs.

Syracuse University's Martin J. Whitman School of Management, in conjunction with 2U, Inc, has announced the Accounting@Syracuse program - an online Master of Science in Professional Accounting course, that acts as an offshoot of the existing MBA@Syracuse program.

Business development companies are increasingly using off-balance sheet investment vehicles known as senior secured loan programs to increase their effective portfolio leverage without running afoul of regulatory limits on balance sheet leverage, but that trend can be risky, according to research from Fitch Ratings.

The Treasury Department announced steps that will make it harder for U.S. companies to move their addresses outside the country to reduce taxes, clamping down on the practice known as inversions.

Sage North America announced an agreement to acquire PayChoice, the privately held provider of payroll solutions for small and medium-sized businesses.

Is your firm experiencing double-digit organic growth year after year? If so, you have achieved something that almost every firm in the country would love to emulate. If you answered no, you might be underachieving—and the most important question is why.

The majority of small businesses are expecting to finish the year with a profit, according to a new survey by the payroll service provider SurePayroll.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has released a Staff Audit Practice Alert to remind auditors to continue to follow the existing PCAOB standards when they are considering a company's ability to continue as a going concern.

The Internal Revenue Service is being urged to move up its W-2 filing deadline to January 31 and to lower the threshold for requiring electronic filing of W-2 returns in an effort to curb the growing trend of identity theft related tax fraud.