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Tax Strategy Scan: Earn with Owing Tax
 
Our weekly roundup of tax-related investment strategies and news your clients may be thinking about.
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Firm News - July 15, 2016
 
A roundup of recent expansions, additions, new services and other news from firms across the country.
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A roundup of recent hires, promotions, awards and other personnel news from firms across the country.
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Indiana Approves Historic Change in CPA License Renewal Requirements
by MICHAEL COHN
 
The Indiana Board of Accountancy approved a change Friday in its rules for renewing a CPA license, allowing competency-based education, as opposed to hours-based education, to count toward the requirement.
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Tax Fraud Blotter: Cash in the Bathroom
by JEFF STIMPSON
 
A roundup of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.
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Price Services More Effectively with Value Pricing
 
Price Services More Effectively with Value Pricing
by MELINDA CRUMP
 
Have you been evaluating firm profitability and how to more effectively price the services you offer? If so, consider changing your pricing method from the standard billable hour to value pricing. Why? Price chases value, and by creating more value, you will be able to “capture more price.”
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Simple Solutions to Retention
 
Upward Spiral Partnership managing director Martin Bissett explains in this video how to retain quality staff members by providing them with a viable career path.
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6 Tips for Protecting Your Firm’s Data and Reputation: Part I
by BRYAN GREGORY
 
It’s important for all accounting firms, big and small, to understand the appropriate ways to keep themselves safe against cyber threats.
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In the Blogs: At Your Service
by JEFF STIMPSON
 
Highlights of some of our favorite tax-related blogs from the past week.
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GOP Congressman Renacci Releases Tax Reform Plan
by MICHAEL COHN
 
Rep. Jim Renacci, R-Ohio, a CPA who joined Congress in 2011, has released a tax reform plan only weeks after House Republican leaders unveiled their own.
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Mitchell Wiggins & Co. recognized with YP Workplace Award for young professionals
by SEAN MCCABE
 
Virginia-based accounting firm Mitchell Wiggins & Company recently announced that they were honored with ChamberRVA’s 9th Annual Icons and YP Workplace Awards. To be eligible, the firm submitted entries for judging by young professionals in the Richmond, Va. region and was ultimately recognized for creating and keeping an inviting work environment that attracts, retains, and develops young professionals.
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Treasury Corporate-Debt Rules Exceed Authority, Tax Lawyers Say
by LYNNLEY BROWNING AND SALEHA MOHSIN
 
The U.S. Treasury Department exceeded its authority by proposing wide-ranging regulations intended to curb corporations’ ability to shift their American earnings overseas, tax lawyers told agency officials during a hearing.
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EY and OpenText Form Tech Partnership
by RANICA ARROWSMITH
 
Big Four firm Ernst & Young has begun a partnership with OpenText to expand EY’s digital and analytical services.
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Is This the ‘End of Accounting’? Maybe So
by MICHAEL COHN
 
The standard GAAP accounting measures are less and less useful to investors, according to a new book with the provocative title, “The End of Accounting.”
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Abacus Now Integrated with Slack
by RANICA ARROWSMITH
 
Expense management solution provider Abacus has integrated with messaging app Slack, allowing finance teams to review and approve expenses within Slack using the platform’s new interactive messages.
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10 Tips on Amending a Tax Return
 
The IRS shares some advice on fixing a return
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CPAs and Tax Pros Gone Wrong
 
Some of our favorite examples of professionals breaking bad
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