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The Ohio Society of CPAs has begun providing a series of “micro” learning courses for CPAs packaged in 10-minute modules.

Regulation of the CPA profession in the U.S. needs a transformation.

The American Institute of CPAs’ Auditing Standards Board has issued a new attestation standard for agreed-upon procedures engagements related to asset-backed securitizations.

The American Institute of CPAs is expressing support for a proposed accounting standards update that would require investment companies that act as “feeder funds” for other investment companies to provide better disclosures of those investments on their financial statements.

Dr. Larzette Hale, who was the first Black American female to become a CPA in the state of Georgia and the first to earn a PhD in accounting, has died.

The Rhode Island Society of CPAs is trying to re-imagine the traditional financial statement.

The American Institute of CPAs sent a comment letter Friday to the Internal Revenue Service about two interpretive issues.

The American Institute of CPAs’ Conflict Minerals Task Force has developed two new Q&A documents on conflict mineral disclosures mandated under the Dodd-Frank Act.

It may make for grim reading, but the American Institute of CPAs has just issued guidance on new mortality tables from an actuarial group.

The Indiana CPA Society’s CPA Center for Excellence has steered its first CPA firm through its new advisory services program.

Massachusetts CPAs who are still digging out from a record-shattering wave of heavy snowstorms this winter may have one thing to cheer: a new benefits package of health and dental insurance, along with other services, offered by the Massachusetts Society of CPAs.

More than 200 CPAs from across the Peach State are meeting state lawmakers on Thursday for the 2015 CPA Day at the Gold Dome, Georgia’s state capitol building in Atlanta.

NABA receives $100,000 to promote Tax-Aide program.

The American Institute of CPAs has written to some of the top tax lawmakers in Congress asking them to grant relief to taxpayers in appropriate situations when they miss a statutory deadline or make an error in choosing an election.

The American Institute of CPAs has sent a letter recommending various tax reform priorities to the new chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis.

David J. Moynihan, a past president of the New York State Society of CPAs and audit partner at the Bonadio Group’s Syracuse office, died early Friday morning after a nearly year-long battle with cancer.

The National Conference of CPA Practitioners is seeking candidates for election to its Board of Directors.

Regulation of the CPA profession in the U.S. needs a transformation. Mind you now, not a change—a transformation. Yes—a major overhaul.

The winners of two scholarship programs are announced.

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