The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has issued a pair of new proposals: to strengthen its requirements for an auditor’s use of the work of specialists, and for auditing accounting estimates such as fair value measurements.

Sage appoints company veteran to EVP of partners, accountants and alliances; Cherry Bekaert promotes partner to MP; and other recent hires, promotions and personnel news from firms across the country.

Bennett Thrasher hikes the Appalachian Trail; Clark Schaefer Hackett rebrands; and more news from CPA offices across the country.

Beginning June 15, taxpayers requesting letter rulings, closing agreements and certain other rulings from the IRS will need to make user fee payments electronically using the federal government’s Pay.gov system.

Deep trouble for Deepwater scam; $6K in false HSH income; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Even if you’re not serving as their financial planner, you’ll still want to keep an eye on your clients’ future strategies.

The new model includes discussion of ‘critical audit matters,’ the length of the auditor’s tenure, and new standardized language and formatting.

$4.5 billion in unpaid tax, penalties and interest due lurks in the Automated Non-Master File.

The Spring Statistics of Income Bulletin shows increases in income and tax returns filed.

The Center for Audit Quality’s program has now funded over $600K in projects.