Cherry Bekaert appoints chief HR officer; Lumsden & McCormick promotes a marketing specialist; and other recent hires, promotions and personnel news from firms across the country.

A California CPA has won a key ruling in a suit against the California Board of Accountancy claiming it is improperly enforcing a fingerprinting requirement.

PricewaterhouseCoopers’ firm in the United Kingdom was fined a record £5 million ($6.4 million) by the U.K.’s Financial Reporting Council for its audits of Connaught, a social housing maintenance business that collapsed in 2010.

The firm will combine its GRC expertise with the company’s cybersecurity offerings.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board is asking for comments on how effective its U.S. GAAP Financial Reporting Taxonomy really is.

How a firm gets its first dollar will be very different from how it gets its first million.

The tax tech company has earned a certification for SAP’s ERP Central Component solution.

The president is leaning toward preserving a trillion-dollar tax break for corporate borrowers—a move that economists say could jeopardize his goal of robust economic growth.

IRS experience is no shield from jail; $6 million in bogus deductions; ignoring injunctions; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

CPAs and accounting professionals are well positioned to advise their business clients on cost containment and risk mitigation.