WebCPA Staff

The Internal Revenue Service has filed a tax lien for $396,330 against R&B singer Toni Braxton.

Epicor Software has released its new ERP suite, Epicor 9.05, with new industry-specific functionality and expertise, new financial management capabilities, and the ability to connect people, processes and applications.

Accounting Today has issued a call for submissions for its first annual Top New Products report.

Financial-crisis-related class-action lawsuits declined last year, according to a new study.

Grant Thornton has released the fifth edition of its Audit Committee Handbook, with new chapters on audit planning and oversight, fraud risk and broader international coverage.

As the population ages and the Baby Boomer generation enters retirement, incidents of financial elder abuse are growing more common — and accountants need to be more vigilant than ever in looking after their clients’ interests, according to Randy Werner, a CPA and loss prevention specialist at professional liability insurer CAMICO.

Tea Party activists are planning an Online Tax Revolt that will send an army of avatars on a virtual march on Washington on Tax Day, April 15.

The Treasury Department and the Office of Management and Budget have opened a new office that will focus on improving financial management processes across the federal government.

The International Federation of Accountants has released two downloadable handbooks containing its 2010 code of ethics for professional accountants and pronouncements on auditing, review and other assurance services.

The Internal Revenue Service said that many small businesses and tax-exempt organizations that provide health insurance coverage to employees now qualify for a new tax credit, thanks to the health care reform bill.

Sage North America has added human resources management and employee self-service capabilities to its MIP Fund Accounting software.

FinancialForce.com has introduced QuickStart, a wizard-driven application that helps businesses set up their accounts online quickly with the company’s cloud accounting system.

A Los Angeles doctor who operated a medical clinic that peddled herbal medicine cures has been arraigned on tax evasion, wire fraud, mail fraud, witness tampering and criminal forfeiture charges.

California CPA firm Stonefield Josephson has acquired Caporicci & Larson, expanding the firm’s governmental and nonprofit auditing capabilities.

The Internal Revenue Service has indeed been taking steps to assist economically distressed taxpayers who have fallen behind on their payments, a government report confirmed.

Sage North America has partnered with security andpayment compliance management provider Trustwave to help small to midsizedbusinesses facilitate their Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCIDSS) compliance efforts.

Syracuse University's Transactional Records AccessClearinghouse has added an app to its recently released annual report on theIRS that lets users drill down to tax return information across all 50 statesand every one of more than 3,000 counties.

U.S. executives remain more optimistic about theirbusiness prospects over the next year than their counterparts in Europe,according to the latest Global Business Outlook survey from Big Four firm KPMG.

Small-business owners see conditions for their businessesgetting worse in the next six months, according to a new survey.

Jobs in the private sector declined by 23,000 in March, with small businesses shouldering more than half of that decline in employmentaccording to the monthly National Employment Report released by payroll concernADP.