Most of the accounting blogs focus on taxes. Joe Kristan started the Tax Updates blog (http://www.taxupdateblog.com) for Roth & Company in Des Moines back in 2001 and it has gathered a steady following. There is the Tax Guru (http://www.taxguru.net) blog, where Arkansas CPA Kerry M. Kerstetter answers tax questions and posts links to tax-related stories (and the occasional cartoon) in the news. Russ Fox, CPA, of Clayton Financial and Tax, California, comments on tax news in his Taxable Talk blog (http://www.taxabletalk.com). Stuart Levine, a Maryland tax attorney, analyzes cases on the Tax & Business Law Commentary blog at http://taxbiz.blogspot.com. Trish McIntire, an enrolled agent (EA), incorporates her own experiences with links to tax news on. Our Taxing Times blog at http://trishmc.typepad.com.

Accountants are geeks too! There are several blogs on topics relating to accounting technology including the CPA Technology Blog (http://blog.bftcpa.com) run by Brian Tankersley, CPA, CITP (topics ranging from auditing standards to where to find a cheap PC) and The ExtremeCPA Blog where Kevin Ryan, CPA, pushes CPAs to better understand and use technology at http://extremecpa.blogspot.com. Gregory LaFollette, CPA, CITP, Executive Editor of the CPA Technology Advisor, publishes the TechGap Blog at http://www.thetechgap.com where he surveys the intersection of public accounting and technology.

General accounting topics are also getting more coverage in the blogosphere. These blogs include:

• The Financial Accounting Blog (http://accounting.blogspot.com)
• Confessions of an Accounting Bum (http://accountingbum.blogspot.com) 
• CPA Sense (http://cpasense.blogspot.com)
• Internal Auditing Blog (http://iia.blogspot.com)
• The Analyst’s Accounting Observer (http://www.accountingobserver.com/blog)
• Nicholas J. Pennewell, CPA-Where Every Penny Matters (http://tampabaycpa.blogspot.com) 
• Vanilla Accounting (http://www.vanilla-accounting.com/blog/index.php)

Law professors are also weighing in with accounting-centric blogs. Paul L. Caron at the University of Cincinnati College of Law edits the TaxProf blog (http://taxprof.typepad.com). James Edward Maule of the Villanova University School of Law comments on tax law in the Mauled Again blog at http://mauledagain.blogspot.com. Daniel Shaviro at New York University Law School covers tax and budget policy, as well as contemporary U.S. politics and culture, in his blog Start Making Sense (http://danshaviro.blogspot.com).

A few blogs are springing up in niche areas. Chicago attorney Joel A. Schoenmeyer publishes the Death and Taxes blog (http://jas-law.typepad.com) and Gerry W. Beyer, a professor at Texas Tech, maintains the Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog (http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/trusts_estates_prof). Attorney Juan C. Antúnez is the author of The Florida Probate Litigation Blog (http://www.flprobatelitigation.com). There is at least one blog devoted to Sarbanes-Oxley, Inside Sarbanes-Oxley (www.insidesarbanesoxley.com/sarbanes_oxley_blog). Developments in business valuation are covered by the Financial Consulting Group Business Valuation Blog at http://www.gofcg.org/blog and by noted business valuation expert Chris Mercer in the Mercer on Value Blog at http://www.merceronvalue.com.

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EVA M. LANG, CPA/ABV, ASA, is the Memphis-based executive director of the Financial Consulting Group, an association of business valuation and litigation support firms. A recent inductee into the AICPA Business Valuation Hall of Fame, Lang also is coauthor of Best Websites for Financial Professionals (John Wiley & Sons, 2003) and a frequent contributor to AICPA publications. Contact information can be found at www.gofcg.org/profiles/eml.

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