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AccountingWEB US virtual conference kicks off

AccountingWEB.com, Sift Media's US accounting website, has kicked off a virtual conference featuring recognised speakers

Obama gets tax advice from Lindsay Lohan

US President Barack Obama is surrounded by advisers, official and unofficial. Everyone has an opinion.

Dumb down your smartphone

Xcentric vice president of Market Strategy Roy Keely guest blogs on the demise of boredom, via our US sister website

Six mistakes to avoid when starting out

Missouri CPA Bert Doerhoff offers some reminders based on his experiences starting up on his own.

Facebook founder faces billion dollar tax bill

The impending flotation of Facebook will make founder and majority shareholder Mark Zuckerberg an obscene amount of money, but will also turn him into the biggest taxpayer in the US, reports Ac

Bribe of the century

A Californian trucker has been jailed for nearly five years for offering an Internal Revenue Service officer a $600,000 bribe - the largest such figure ever recorded, reports our sister site

How to buy a laptop

With the Christmas shopping season approaching, AccountingWEB.com’s Jason Bramwell describes the seven pillars of wisdom when it comes to buying a new laptop.

AccountingWEB.com acquires Going Concern

Our US colleagues on AccountingWEB.com have acquired the online tabloid Going Concern blog to cement AccountingWEB’s market leadership on both sides of the Atlantic.

Don't drink and tweet: advice from Illinois CPA

“E-mail is so yesterday. It's all about Twitter and LinkedIn,” Illinois CPA Society (ICPAS) president Elaine Weiss told the recent Midwest Accounting and Finance Showcase near Chicago.

SEC probes causes of 6 May ‘flash crash’

“Flash crash” is an unwelcome new phrase that entered the financial lexicon when the US Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 990 points and the market lost roughly 9% of its value in the space of five