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2+ hour, 10+ min ago   (805+ words) It's no secret that accountants love benchmarking. Internally, accounting firms benchmark their revenue per employee or productive hours against industry averages because benchmarking provides context. Yet few apply the same discipline to one of their biggest investments: their people. Recruiting…...

4+ hour, 6+ min ago   (188+ words) Sooner or later a practitioner gets the call. A client's vendors, or the client's own customers, are receiving invoices and payment-change requests from an address inside the client's company, and nobody there sent them. The messages read correctly. They reference…...

11+ hour, 58+ min ago   (469+ words) The 57th GST Council meeting, earlier scheduled for September 12, has been postponed to October 7 due to the BRICS summit being hosted by India in New Delhi, PTI reported, citing sources. The BRICS summit is scheduled for September 12-13 and is expected to…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (148+ words) Mike De Stefano has taken the helm at RKL; The Bonadio Group named Cailee Medina its new chief human resources officer; Rea appointed Tory Spadafora its first-ever chief growth officer; and other firm and personnel news from across the profession....

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (266+ words) Confronted by a chronic talent shortage, fee compression and ever-increasing workloads, more U.S. accounting firms are turning to offshore talent. In earlier columns I've talked about the payoff from offshoring when it's done patiently and correctly. But there are some things…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (1210+ words) Philadelphia: Daniel A. Pallen, 46, of Springfield, Pennsylvania, entered a plea of guilty to one count of tax evasion and one count of mail fraud, arising from his submission of over $400,000 in fictitious checks to evade payment of his federal taxes and…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (308+ words) Today, the Commission proposed to rescind Investment Advisers Act rule 206(4)-5, the investment adviser “Pay-to-Play Rule.” I am thrilled that we are proposing to eliminate rather than simply amend the rule, which always has bothered my First Amendment sensibilities.[1] Political speech…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (182+ words) However, since its adoption, it has proven only to be needlessly penalizing, burdensome and complex to implement, and misaligned with the SEC’s mandate. To that end, our proposal would rescind the political contribution rule in its entirety and amend the…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (399+ words) Commissioner Mark T. Uyeda Official websites use.gov Secure.gov websites use HTTPS More in this Section Statement on Proposed Rescission of Rule 206(4)-5 under the Investment Advisers Act Sixteen years ago, the Commission adopted Rule 206(4)-5 under the Investment Advisers Act (“Advisers…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (317+ words) The Securities and Exchange Commission today issued a proposal to rescind its “pay-to-play” rule that prohibits investment advisers from providing compensated investment advisory services to a government client for two years… Official websites use.gov Secure.gov websites use HTTPS…...