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Features

  • Corporate Investigations Pioneer Jules Kroll to Keynote 2014 Anti-Fraud Conference

    By:
    ALONZA ROBERTSON
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    Apr 14, 2014
    Jules Kroll, considered the father of modern corporate investigations, will be the keynote speaker at the 2014 Anti-Fraud Conference May 21 in New York.
  • NYSSCPA Extends Helping Hand to Public With Annual Tax Panels

    By:
    ROBERT BUSWEILER
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    Apr 11, 2014
    Even in the midst of a grueling busy season, NYSSCPA members once again carved out time from their professional schedules to give back to their communities, dispensing free tax advice as part of the Society’s annual volunteer tax panels in February and March.
  • Of tradition and transformation

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    Apr 10, 2014
    Those of you who attended the NYSSCPA’s open house in December, to celebrate the Society’s return to the Wall Street area where it was founded more than a century ago, received a clever collector’s item: an 1897-styled issue of The Trusted Professional.
  • Bill Would Exempt Companies From XBRL

    By:
    CHRIS GAETANO
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    Apr 8, 2014
    A bill introduced in the House of Representatives in March would exempt small public filers from having to use eXtensible Reporting Business Language (XBRL), a computer markup language that has been mandated for all filers by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) since 2011.
  • Five Facts to Know About Bitcoin

    By:
    CHRIS GAETANO
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    Apr 8, 2014
    The past few years have seen an explosion of online virtual currencies, the oldest and most popular of which is Bitcoin. Unlike traditional mediums of exchange such as dollars, pounds and yen, Bitcoins are linked to no one nation, are not regulated by a central bank and transactions that use them are not processed by an intermediary financial institution.
  • Demand For Sustainability Information is Clear, But Its Place in Regulatory Regime is Not

    By:
    CHRIS GAETANO
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    Apr 8, 2014
    Public companies are increasingly under pressure to produce corporate sustainability reports—disclosures that go beyond the bottom line and paint a picture of an entity’s environmental and social impacts. However, the question of how this data can be accurately conveyed and how it relates to an entity’s legal regulatory filings remains a subject of debate—as evidenced by a recent butting of heads between the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and a new organization that has released its own set of voluntary guidelines for sustainability reporting.
  • Digital spring-cleaning: The to-do list every firm should tackle

    By:
    JOEL LANZ, CPA/CITP, CFF, CISA, CISM, CISSP, CFE
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    Apr 7, 2014
    Now that spring has arrived and, for many tax professionals, a respite from client or executive management pressures is soon at hand, we have an opportunity to address some of the technology-related issues that we never seem to have time for. Below are a few suggestions to help you, your employer and your clients recharge for the second fiscal quarter.