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Footnotes: Learn Forever, Says Guy; Pentagon Counting; Hold Up, Non-Profits | 05.22.14

CPAs Must Embrace Lifelong Learning, says the CEO of the Illinois Society in this video [YouTube]

Michigan is sending a couple million to Detroit [USA Today]

Mikulski Uses Accounting Tricks to Close $4B Gap The maneuver by Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., allowed for additional funding for transportation and housing programs, increases in the IRS budget, and maintaining funding levels in a huge bill for the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education. But it was met with opposition from panel Republicans who said it violated the spirit of last year's hard-won budget deal. [AP]

Some Congressional Critters would like the Pentagon to change the way it accounts for ammo [UT]

318,000 fed workers owe $3.3B in back taxes, IRS says [AP]

IRS postpones hearing on draft nonprofit rules until after revisions [Federal Eye via WaPo]

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