RSM US has won a global partner of the year award and two partner of the year awards for the United States from Microsoft. The awards, announced recently, include product and industry honors for a wide variety of Microsoft products and platforms.

 The Internal Revenue Service and the Federal Trade Commission are holding a free webinar to held attendees deal with tax combat tax scams and tax-related identity theft.

The SEC has socked Ernst & Young  with a civil money penalty of $100 million for cheating by hundreds of audit staffers on CPE courses, including sections about ethics. This was the second major episode of exam cheating in the last 10 years with the other round costing EY $50 million.