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Payroll can be a profitable sideline for accountants, but it can also entail risks, including phony payroll bureaus.

Jon Baron, president of professional software and services at Thomson Reuters’ Tax & Accounting business, showed a prototype of some iPhone applications that the company is preparing.

Get this – there may be a national healthcare debate going on – but according to a new survey, the percent of organizations providing wellness options to their employees has increased significantly from last year.

Now that Warren Buffett has joined Goldman Sachs in a bid for $3 billion worth of tax credits from the government-seized mortgage holder Fannie Mae, there seems to be a new twist on the definition of “troubled assets.”

Single ladies, the next time you want to whip out the credit card to buy that new Armani suit to impress the ties at your next meeting, think about this – you’re playing into the statistic that women building their career are more likely to rack up credit card debt than their male counterparts. At least according to a new analysis done by Consolidated Credit Counseling Services Inc., a national debt counseling organization.

Fort Worth, Texas-based accounting firm Weaver and Tidwell is now dubbed just plain Weaver in a new branding campaign that includes a new logo and a shortened brand name.

It may be a bit far off, but here’s something to look forward to - Deloitte has broken ground on a new leadership development facility slated to open in 2011.

Taking responsibility for audits has turned out to be an increasingly thorny issue.

Dear Liz & folks,

Whether or not the SEC commissioners move to adopt the proposed roadmap, or substantially change it, the message seems clear: the U.S. and international accounting standard-setters are going to aim for June 2011 as the “date certain” for convergence.