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The Securities and Exchange Commission has opened a formal investigation into OfficeMax Inc.'s accounting for vendor income, the company disclosed.
June 14 -
HealthSouth Corp. will pay $100 million to settle charges brought against it by the Securities and Exchange Commission alleging that it cooked its books by more than $2 billion over several years.
June 9 -
Tax and accounting software provider CCH has added Securities and Exchange Commission comment letters to its Accounting Research Manager 10-K Lookup tool.
June 9 -
Assets in Section 529 college savings plans rose to an estimated $55.4 billion at the end of the first quarter, according to data released by the nonprofit College Savings Foundation.
June 8 -
KPMG LLP's board elected Timothy P. Flynn, 48, as chairman and chief executive, replacing Eugene O'Kelly, who will step down from that role to deal with a recent diagnosis of advanced-stage cancer.
June 8 -
Hiring ceilings at the Securities and Exchange Commission have reportedly been cut by 10 percent across the board amid facility cost overruns and an anticipated lower budget for fiscal 2006.
June 7 -
The American Institute of CPAs has named Gary M. Scopes as director of international relations.
June 6 -
Overseas accounting rule makers are kicking off the summer with a series of road shows across Europe to talk with members of the business community there about International Financial Reporting Standards, which are now mandatory for listed companies in all 25 member states of the European Union.
June 6 -
Eisner Retirement Solutions, a unit of regional CPA and business advisory firm Eisner, unveiled a free turnkey product to assist plan sponsors in complying with the Department of Labor's mandatory individual retirement account rollover requirements that were laid out in the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Act of 2001.
June 5 -
The laws that govern estate and retirement planning do not change much from year to year beyond adjustments to the relevant tax tables. In fact, the most recent major changes stem from the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001.
June 5