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An Illinois CPA Society report suggests some of the profession’s accepted habits may need to be re-examined.

A research paper from the CFP Board found that black and Latino professionals are severely underrepresented in the industry.

A new revenue procedure makes it easier for companies to conform with FASB’s revenue recognition standard.

Another client of Swiss financial adviser Beda Singenberger, whose accidental mailing of a list of his American clients helped federal prosecutors build dozens of tax-evasion cases, has been nabbed by the government.

The ninth annual competition invited students across all disciplines to submit brief videos on ethical standards in modern business.

Google’s Duplex AI points the way to a radical augmentation of the profession’s abilities.

The American Institute of CPAs suggested more than 30 changes to the Internal Revenue Service for the Form 990, Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax, and its instructions, some of them marked as urgent.

Sage Business Cloud customers will be able to invoice and receive payments via Microsoft’s email application.

The case for growth by large merger is compelling, and once the dam breaks, there will be a race to merge with the better firms.