BKD CPAs & Advisors has acquired the financial institution practice of Houston-based Harper & Pearson Company, P.C, effective Jan. 9, 2018. Financial terms were not disclosed. BKD, based in Springfield, Mo., ranked 12th on Accounting Today's 2017 list of the Top 100 Firms. The firm's fiscal year
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Wednesday that he is suing the largest oil companies in the United States for what he says is the fossil fuel industry's role in causing climate change.
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Penthouse Global Media Inc., an offshoot of the iconic adult entertainment brand that began with Bob Guccione's Penthouse Magazine in 1965, is taking the business on a third trip through bankruptcy. A Chapter 11 filing in California court Thursday kicks off another restructuring for the empire that grew
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Now, Damore and other white men who worked at Google are fighting back against the company, saying they were fired for having conservative beliefs and speaking up about them, because, you know, revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
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Big Four firm PwC and Accruent, which makes physical resource management software, have partnered up to address the upcoming Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB)/International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) lease accounting changes. Accruent will contribute its expertise
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