WebCPA Staff

San Mateo-based cloud computing vendor NetSuite and sales automation service provider InsideView have announced what they are describing as the first social intelligence application for both customer relationship management and enterprise resource planning software.

The number of federal securities class-action lawsuits filed in the first three quarters of 2009 has fallen 25 percent compared to the same period in 2008, according to a new report from PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Sabrix has released the fall 2009 version of its outsourced sales tax system.

Grant Thornton’s national managing partner of professional standards, John Archambault, has been appointed to the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board’s Standing Advisory Group.

CCH has added Smart Charts, checklists and decision trees to its Business Entity Planning Library to provide further guidance to tax practitioners analyzing and comparing the entities used by small- and midsized businesses.

Smith Elliott Kearns & Company, LLC SAID it will be represented in 2010 on six PKF North American Network National Committees.

Shwiff, Levy & Polo, a boutique CPA firm in San Francisco, has listed its top five tips for small business owners to help them avoid an IRS audit.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has disallowed a “midco” tax shelter, becoming the first appellate court to disallow one.

The American Institute of CPAs has filed a lawsuit against the Federal Trade Commission challenging the applicability of the so-called “Red Flags Rule” to CPAs.

Herbein + Company said that that four of its partners and executives have been appointed to serve on several of the PKF North American Network’s committees in 2010.

Intuit has selected Siegel & Associates as its only reseller in New England offering IBM’s Smart Cube, an integrated hardware-software solution designed to run all core business applications.

Government tax authorities around the world are requiring multinational companies to provide more documentation to support their transfer pricing strategies as countries seek additional tax revenue.

Nearly half the managers polled by Deloitte for a new survey expect the government’s economic stimulus plan to improve economic conditions by the end of 2010. However, only 32 percent believe the stimulus has improved economic conditions so far.

A measure approved last week by the House Financial Services Committee to change Sarbanes-Oxley audit rules would lead to a higher incidence of fraud and an increase in the amount of fraud losses, said the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.

When it comes to their retirement, 50-somethings seem to be in a state of denial about how long their retirement savings will last, according to a new study.

The Internal Revenue Service has published its list of recipients of matching grants for its Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program, and not surprisingly it omits the controversial community organizing group ACORN.

The Sleeter Group, a network of small-business technology consultants, has announced the annual winners of its 2010 “Awesome Add-ons for QuickBooks” at the group’s Next Generation Accounting Solutions Conference, which showcases management tools and technologies.

William F. Rucci, Jr., a CPA and MST, and a partner in the Boston-area accounting and business advisory firm Rucci, Bardaro & Barrett, has been elected to the board of directors of Russell Bedford International, a global network of independent accounting, business and legal consulting firms with affiliates in over 70 countries.

CCH’s Tax Prep Partner series has expanded to cover nonprofit, estate tax and payroll forms.

Eisner LLP has become a member firm of the PKF International Limited network.