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CPA Exam emergency testing period invoked
News PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT By Ken Tysiac {:else} {timeSince} {/if} {@if cond=”{isCGMA}”} {:else} {/if} {/.} CPA Exam candidates will have additional opportunities for testing during an emergency testing period that is being invoked by the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA), the AICPA, and Prometric. Prometric previously announced that it is closing its testing […]
GASB Plans Postponement of Effective Dates
In view of the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) has announced that it has added a project to its current technical agenda to consider postponing all Statement and Implementation Guide provisions with an effective date that begins on or after reporting periods beginning after June 15, 2018. Closure […]
Practitioner Priority Service, other IRS help lines suspended due to coronavirus
News Procedure & Administration By Sally P. Schreiber, J.D. {:else} {timeSince} {/if} {@if cond=”{isCGMA}”} {:else} {/if} {/.} The IRS announced the evening of March 26 that it was closing the Practitioner Priority Service, a special phone line for tax practitioners. It had previously announced that practitioners should be prepared for long wait times when using […]
Real ID deadline gets pushed back due to coronavirus
A view of an American Airlines ticket counter in Terminal D at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) on March 13, 2020 in Dallas, Texas. Tom Pennington | Getty Images With air travel at a near standstill amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Department of Homeland Security is extending the Real ID enforcement deadline a full year […]
WeWork’s new crisis: ‘Workplaces will never be the same after this’
By Ellen Huet WeWork executives used to obsess over the number of people they could pack into each of the company’s shared workspaces. They said a more crowded office helped make the space feel active and spark collaboration when desk mates slid past each other in the hallways. The technique had an added benefit of […]
Wall Street tumbles after stellar rally as virus fears grow
(Reuters) – U.S. stock indexes fell sharply at the open on Friday, following the S&P 500 and the Dow’s best three-day run in nearly a century, as fears about the economic damage from the rapidly spreading coronavirus returned to the forefront. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 653.70 points, or 2.90%, at the open to […]
Online retailers, takeaway joints face shortage of packaging material amid lockdown
Online retailers, sellers, takeout joints have started facing shortages of packaging material like boxes, tapes, labels, cartons among others—all critical for doorstep delivery of essentials. The packaging supply chain for has come to a complete halt as India stopped imports from China—a major hub for plastics—and local manufacturers struggle with permissions to operate under a […]
Supercomputers Recruited to Work on COVID-19 Research
A consortium forms to crunch data that might help researchers get a better understanding of the virus faster. A convergence of technology resources is being put to work to find answers in the fight against COVID-19. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the U.S. Department of Energy reached out to the […]
Tencent to develop cloud game platform with Huawei
China’s Tencent Holdings launched a co-innovation lab with Huawei to develop a cloud game platform, the world’s biggest game company said in a statement Friday. The collaboration will tap the computing power of Huawei’s Kunpeng processor to build Tencent’s GameMatrix cloud game platform, and the two sides will explore more possibilities in areas such as […]