WebCPA Staff

The Nasdaq stock market has begun offering the CertifiedFinancial Planner Board of Standards' searchable listings of CertifiedFinancial Planner professionals on its Web site.

President Obama proposed to use some $30 billion from theTARP bank bailout program and steer it into a lending fund for small businessesin hopes of sparking job creation.

Cloud computing products and services provider NetSuitenamed Intuit veteran Gary Wiessinger to the post of vice president of productmanagement.

Payroll and benefits outsourcing concern Paychex Inc. hasteamed with data integration services provider Points North in an effort toexpand its federal certified payroll offerings to include state and localapplications for companies that receive federal funding.

Tax prep giant H&R Block is partnering with onlinebanking provider Yodlee to integrate Block's tax software with Yodlee'spersonal financial management software.

Southeast regional CPA and business advisory firm Carr,Riggs & Ingram has bolstered its footprint in the Florida market by mergingin Davis Monk & Co., effective immediately.

As expected, President Obama proposed a $3.8 trillionbudget for Fiscal 2011, including a projected record deficit of $1.6 trillion.

Grant Thornton UK said the U.K. Accounting StandardBoard's proposal to replace U.K. GAAP with International Financial ReportingStandards for Small and Medium Enterprises is a good one, but objects to thetransition deadline of Jan. 1, 2012, as insufficient to give most businessestime to prepare.

Marks Paneth & Shron LLP has appointed Donald M. May, a valuation specialist with nearly 20 years of experience, as a director in the MP&S Litigation and Corporate Financial Advisory Services Group.

John R. Schnitzer has been elected to serve as the managing member of Smith Elliott Kearns.

CFOs were more optimistic about the economy and their own companies in the fourth quarter of last year, according to a new survey.

Swiss authorities said they would continue talks with the U.S. to resolve an impasse over the disclosure of secret bank accounts at UBS after a Swiss court blocked a deal reached by the two governments last year.

The Securities and Exchange Commission voted to issue interpretive guidance on how public companies should disclose any business and legal developments related to climate change.

Timothy L. Christen, chief executive of Baker Tilly Virchow Krause, has been appointed chairman of the American Institute of CPAs’ Major Firms Group.

Waddell, Smith, Magoon & Freeman has merged with two local firms in the Atlanta area, Gruber & Co. and Pechter & Associates., expanding WSM&F’s client base and combined revenue by about 40 percent.

In his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama proposed using money repaid by financial institutions to the Troubled Asset Relief Program to help small businesses.

A former CPA whose license has been suspended by the Oregon Board of Accountancy has pleaded guilty to charges related to mortgage fraud.

A California man has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the U.S. after he was accused of filing at least 250 tax returns of deceased individuals.

A new report from BNA Tax & Accounting on transfer pricing predicts that tax authorities in different countries will continue to closely scrutinize intercompany transactions across national borders and will begin simultaneous audits of several large companies’ intercompany prices this year.

Linda Stiff, a former IRS acting commissioner, has now joined PricewaterhouseCoopers, along with some other former agency officials.