Saturday, June 30, 2012

2012 Review Captain Checklists

Download all of the resources you'll need to perform an Engagement Review.� Please note these files are for peer reviews commencing on or after January 1, 2012.

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Taxgate - Round VI ? A Call for Morality to Head off the Tax Riots

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Washington Tax Brief

The Washington Tax Brief is a webinar series offered by the AICPA Tax Section to help keep you informed of what is going on in Washington that may affect you, your practice or your clients.

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Bellowing Ads Have No Place in iTunes

As an Apple product-lovin' enthusiast, my default gut reaction is to defend Apple, just like my gut reaction to defend my family and friends. When Apple does something silly, or more likely doesn't do something it ought to do -- or consumers wish it would do -- I tend to think about it from the perspective of Apple's business interests. And I rationalize it.


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AICPA to Congress: SEC Should Keep Investment Adviser Oversight

The CPA Advocate: June, 2012. Congress should not shift oversight of investment advisers to an SRO from the SEC, the AICPA said in a letter to Congress.

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Google Charges Into the Living Room With New Nexus Q Streamer

Google worked toward pulling together its ecosystem Wednesday, announcing an array of new products and services at its I/O Developer Conference. In addition to its widely anticipated Nexus 7 tablet, the company unveiled its Nexus Q media streamer and its Google Cloud Messaging service for Android; made much of its enhancements to Google Play; and launched a demonstration of Google Glass, its smart eyepiece.


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Excel double-click shortcuts

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Five lessons from sports psychology

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Excel FAQs: Working with accounts data

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Five Things a Boss Should Never Do

This article provides tips for BusIndNews readers. Brenda Morris, CPA provided the November tips on what you should not do as a supervisor.

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Industry Insights

This Industry Insights page contains links to various guidance and expert panel information for key industries for accounting and auditing professionals.

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Grow Your Practice: Healthcare Planning in Retirement

The fear of being able to pay for healthcare in retirement is second only to the fear of running out of money. There is an opportunity for knowledgeable CPA financial planners to address these fears directly and grow their planning practice.�

Source: http://www.aicpa.org/InterestAreas/PersonalFinancialPlanning/CPEAndEvents/Pages/HealthcarePlanningRetirement.aspx

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Friday, June 29, 2012

Overview of the Personal Financial Specialist (PFS) Credential

A summary page with links to all necessary information relating to the PFS credential program.

Source: http://www.aicpa.org/InterestAreas/PersonalFinancialPlanning/Membership/Pages/OverviewofthePersonalFinancialSpecialist(PFS)Credential.aspx

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Facebook's Find Friends Feature Tiptoes In, Tiptoes Out

Facebook rolled out a new mobile social discovery tool recently, only to deactivate it hours later and pull it from its iOS and Android apps. The service, which Facebook called "Find Friends Nearby," was designed to help Facebook users find other users who were in the same vicinity.


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White Papers

From time to time, the AICPA develops whitepapers in order to assist those in practice with new, emerging, or hot topics. All of the whitepapers are listed herein.

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Universal credit rules hit self-employed

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HMRC union strikes over job cuts

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The AICPA Heard You!

The CPA Advocate: June, 2012.�The AICPA is working with regulators to help fix problems related to capital gains reporting and USDA requests that CPAs verify taxpayers' AGI.

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IE9 and Firefox 4 post top marks in Web browser power use comparison

Over on the Internet Explorer Blog, Microsoft has posted results from an extensive comparison of the top five Web browsers. The goal: to determine whether Internet Explorer 9, Firefox 4, Chrome 10, Safari 5, or Opera 11 is able to squeeze the most life out of your laptop's battery.

A baseline was determined with test systems sitting idle, and then browsers were pointed at about:blank, a news site, the HTML5 Galactic demo, and the IE9 fish tank demo. Perhaps unsurprisingly, IE9 came out on top -- though Firefox 4 was a very close second on nearly every test. As you can see, the other browsers didn't necessarily fare quite as well, with Google Chrome, Safari, and Opera all posting significantly worse scores. In Opera 11's case, a laptop battery would last over one hour more with Internet Explorer 9 installed.

But what we'd really like to know is where did Microsoft find the dilithium crystals required to run a Galactic Total Power Consumption test...

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GASB considers proposals on reporting unfunded pension liabilities

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2010-2011 John L. Carey Scholarship Recipients

This is the roster of the 2010-2011 AICPA John L. Carey Scholarship recipients.

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Grant accounting: What you need to know

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Private Company Financial Reporting: The Time for Change Is Now

Hear the latest on the initiative to bring historic change to private company financial reporting, and why it must be done now. Featuring AICPA President and CEO, Barry Melancon, CPA.

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Do we need a consultant?

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Thursday, June 28, 2012

Excel 2010 KPI tutorial 2: Simplify your charts

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Gigapixel Photography: It's All in the Details

To test the 1-gigapixel AWARE-2 camera his team developed, David Brady, a professor at Duke, took a few snapshots of tundra swans. "Normally, with bird photography you're rushing to point the camera in the right direction," he said. "Here we just took a bunch of pictures and then went back later to see what we had.


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Shaping the Future - Panelist Biographies

Review the biographies of our panelists for the joint discussion
Shaping the Future: Lessons from Accounting Standards Leaders.

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Business Briefs 2012

This business brief outlines key questions a business should ask with the aim of understanding privacy risk, implementing a privacy program, managing privacy risk and obtaining privacy assurance.

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AICPA Submits Comments to IRS on Transfers from Irrevocable Trusts

The AICPA responded June 26, 2012 to an IRS request for comments about when transfers of principal from one irrevocable trust to another irrevocable trust should not be treated as having an income, gift, estate and/or generation-skipping transfer tax consequence.

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Government Auditing Standards Report Illustrations

This�page contains examples of the reports issued under GAAS and Government Auditing Standards in various circumstances.�

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EBPAQC Alert No. 274

EBP SOC 1 Resources: New EBPAQC Resource Center; Documentation Tool; June 5 AICPA Webcast; Practice Aid; Use the Member Forum

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Apples Wins Federal Injunction Against Samsung Galaxy Tab

Samsung was hit with bad news Tuesday when U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh issued an injunction against the company that prevented it from selling the Galaxy 10.1 tablet because it looked a little too much like the iPad.

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/06/samsung-told-stop-selling-galaxy-tab-while-apple-lawsuit/

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PTPs Can Use Safe Harbor to Determine COD Income That Is ?Qualifying Income?

The IRS issued a safe harbor for publicly traded partnerships (PTPs) that want to avoid corporate taxation by qualifying under Sec. 7704(c) as partnerships with 90% or more of their income from qualifying sources.

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Audit provisions for small entities: PASE explained

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Go for it

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AICPA Practitioners Symposium & TECH+ Conference

Last week, the AICPA held the Practitioners Symposium & TECH+ Conference, co-located for the first time with the AAM?s Marketing Summit in Las Vegas.

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Wednesday, June 27, 2012

I could get used to this

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Moments of Obligation: A Call for CPAs to Join the Financial Conversation

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Proposed Regs. on Basis for S Corporation Shareholders From Bona Fide Indebtedness

The IRS issued proposed regulations on when an S corporation shareholder can increase basis in the S corporation?s stock based on loans to the corporation.

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Google?s Android Onslaught Takes on Kindle Fire, Apple?s Siri

Google reloaded Android on Wednesday with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and a new Nexus 7 tablet that will help the company better compete with Apple and Amazon.

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/06/android-flood-google-unveils-jelly-bean-siri-fighter-nexus-7-tablet/

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New Company car discussion group launched

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The AICPA Heard You!

The CPA Advocate: June, 2012.�The AICPA is working with regulators to help fix problems related to capital gains reporting and USDA requests that CPAs verify taxpayers' AGI.

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GAQC Alert No. 194

Register� for CPE Rebroadcasts or Access No-CPE Archive of Required 2012 GAQC Annual� Update Webcast.

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Excel KPI tutorial 5: PowerPivot tips

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Private Company Financial Reporting: The Time for Change Is Now

Hear the latest on the initiative to bring historic change to private company financial reporting, and why it must be done now. Featuring AICPA President and CEO, Barry Melancon, CPA.

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2010 Conference Materials

Download all of the files and presentations provided during the 2010 Peer Review Conference.

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2010-2011 John L. Carey Scholarship Recipients

This is the roster of the 2010-2011 AICPA John L. Carey Scholarship recipients.

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Is Microsoft Feeding the Android Machine?

The month of June has not been kind to Microsoft hardware partners. Last week, Redmond revealed that it's getting into the Windows tablet game with the introduction of the Surface, meaning it will compete for sales with its own allies. It followed that up with news about Windows Phone 8.


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Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Archived 2012 Governmental Audit Quality Center Annual Update Webcast

This archived GAQC required 2012 GAQC Annual Webcast Update�covers the latest developments in governmental and not-for-profit organization audits, including single audits, for the purpose of preparing our members for the 2012 audit season.

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2012 Peer Review Board Open Session Meeting Materials and Highlights

Download the meeting materials and highlights for the 2012 Peer Review Board Open Session meetings.

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Is the Use of IFRS Making Accounting Truly International?

Convergence of accounting principles can be compared to trying to piece together a very large and complicated jigsaw puzzle. At the moment, with more than 100 countries now requiring or permitting the use of IFRS or with plans to converge to IFRS, clearly we have made a good start, but there are

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Business Briefs 2012

This business brief outlines key questions a business should ask with the aim of understanding privacy risk, implementing a privacy program, managing privacy risk and obtaining privacy assurance.

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Taxgate - Round III - When Does Tax Avoidance Become Tax Evasion?

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In the Lap of Luxury: Tesla's All-Electric Model S

This summer, Tesla is rolling out its luxury electric car, the Model S, amid much acclaim. "The design and efficiency of the Model S are unparalleled," said electric vehicle consultant Shannon Arvizu. "It's a stunningly beautiful car that is incredibly affordable to operate and has 'oh-my-god' wow performance. It's everything you could ever want in a luxury vehicle."


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