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Boyd Falls, the former managing partner of Austin & Falls CPAs in Charlotte, N.C., has died.

Former fraudster and current FBI advisor Frank Abagnale has one response for people who regularly compliment his intelligence.

The IRS Electronic Tax Administration Advisory Committee presented its 2014 Annual Report to Congress during a public meeting Tuesday, with recommendations including the creation of an online IRS account for individual and business taxpayers and tax professionals.

Joseph Falbo has been tapped as president-elect for the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants.

TaxOps CEO and founder Brian Amann discusses the importance of accountants having more of an entrepreneurial spirit, in an interview with Accounting Today managing editor Tamika Cody.

Last week, my team was able to achieve the highest of highs and lowest of lows. We celebrated in acquiring a new client that we sought to work with for the past two years. And we booed (or sighed in despair) when a colleague advised the firm that he would be transferring to a company in a different city. We hooted and hollered when the U.S. scored a goal to go up 2-1 on Portugal and we cried (literally for some of us) when Portugal scored in the last 30 seconds to tie the game.

The role of the finance team is expanding beyond traditional accounting and financial reporting function to include areas such as information technology development, cyber security and strategic business planning, according to a new survey by the American Institute of CPAs.

U.S. lawmakers argued late into the night over a computer hard drive that crashed in 2011, taking the controversy surrounding the Internal Revenue Service to a new level of acrimony.

The Supreme Court held Monday that securities fraud plaintiffs need not prove loss causation in order to obtain class certification.

Technology and consumer electronics vendors showed off some of their latest wares at last week’s Digital Experience mini trade show in New York.