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To support relief efforts in Japan after last week’s earthquake and tsunami, Liberty Tax Service will waive tax preparation fees for first-time customers who contribute a minimum of $50 to the Red Cross on Saturday, March 19.

Eight employees of New Jersey and New York-based Wiss & Company celebrated The National Education Association’s Read Across America Day earlier this month by reading to students of the Cerebral Palsy of North Jersey’s Horizon School (CPNJ).

The Internal Revenue Service has been getting tough in its audits of California medical marijuana dispensaries, denying them the ability to deduct many common business expenses.

PricewaterhouseCoopers college interns will be teaching “Banking on Our Future” finance curriculum to more than 4,000 students in 15 major American cities as part of Operation HOPE’s Five Million Kids initiative.

I was a fly on the wall during a recent training session facilitated at my firm. Based on the participant demographics, it was a meeting that I thought I would never witness.

The Securities and Exchange Commission is saying that material weaknesses in its financial statement controls can be traced to the lack of money it has for technology upgrades.

Accounting firms Cowan, Gunteski & Co. and Citrin Cooperman are among the best places to work in New Jersey, according to NJBiz magazine.

Accounting firm Carr, Riggs & Ingram is getting into the star-marking business with its new blog, “Creating Stars.”

Greensboro, N.C.-based accounting firm Davenport, Marvin, Joyce & Co. dove into its 11th year of support for the Guilford County Sheriff’s Department’s Polar Plunge for Special Olympics North Carolina last month.

It used to be that one could send out 100 letters to prospects and get a few meetings, and perhaps even a client. That is a far cry from what it takes to cut through the clutter that our prospects are exposed to these days.