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The National Federation of Independent Business reported Tuesday a decline in optimism among small business owners in June after a promising three-month run.

Protiviti has released the 10th anniversary edition of its Internal Auditing around the World publication, examining the pressing issues, new challenges and evolution of internal audit that affect global companies.

Some of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

The Institute of Internal Auditors has introduced a new Qualification in Internal Audit Leadership program to identify and nurture the internal audit profession’s next generation of leaders.

WithumSmith+Brown has promoted three senior managers to partner. The new partners includes: Christopher DeMayo, Justin O’Horo and Brian Lovett.

American manufacturer Ingersoll-Rand Co. forged the tools that carved the Panama Canal and shaped Mount Rushmore. When it shifted its legal address to Bermuda in 2001 to reduce taxes, the maneuver sparked bipartisan outrage in Congress.

The Association for Accounting Marketing has announced its board of directors and president for the term beginning July 1.

Microsoft Corp., the world’s biggest software maker, is among companies embroiled in a European Union inquiry into Luxembourg’s tax treatment of multinational firms, according to three people familiar with the EU’s review.

The Accounting MOVE Project recently named both the 2014 Best Public Accounting Firms for Women and the Best Public Accounting Firms for Leadership Equity.

The Georgia Society of CPAs has elected Terry Parker to serve as the 2014-2015 chair of the GSCPA, and Lowell Mooney to serve as chair-elect, leading a membership of nearly 14,000 CPAs across the state of Georgia.