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The Internal Revenue Service has issued new rules for travel, lodging, meals and other expenses, including an optional method for computing the deductible costs.

The House Committee on Small Business held a hearing on how some expiring tax incentives, such as the research and development credit and clean energy incentives, would affect small businesses.

Accountants4Less has introduced Recon2Go, an on-demand bank and credit account reconciliation service for small businesses using QuickBooks.

Individual investors’ confidence in the U.S. capital markets is stabilizing this year after dropping precipitously between 2007 and 2008, according to a survey by the Center for Audit Quality.

Intuit has upgraded its QuickBooks small business accounting package for the Mac, with streamlined company set-up features and customized at-a-glance reporting tools.

Coda’s Web-based accounting application Coda 2go has been spun off into a separate company, known as FinancialForce.com, headed by Coda CEO Jeremy Roche.

CFOs indicated a heightened sense of confidence in the U.S. economy and their own companies in the third quarter, according to a new survey.

The Internal Revenue Service has provided guidance for retirement plan administrators, plan participants and retirees on some recent changes from legislation affecting required minimum distributions.

Preparing for retirement and managing income while in retirement are among the top issues confronting American consumers, according to a new survey, but despite those concerns, the majority of households lack a written financial plan.

Grant Thornton CEO Ed Nusbaum and incoming CEO Stephen Chipman talked with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Bill Carlino about how the firm is changing and globalizing.

The Justice Department has asked a federal court in Lincoln, Neb., to bar Donald Ondrak, a Lexington, Neb., CPA, from preparing tax returns.

Web site myStockOptions.com has developed an online directory that connects stock grant holders with the financial, tax or legal advisors they need.

PricewaterhouseCoopers has released the 2009 edition of its free downloadable guide comparing International Financial Reporting Standards with U.S. GAAP.

The author of a new book on the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s recently released GAAP Codification said CPA firms could be exposed to litigation risks unless they deploy the new codification rapidly.

The Group of 20 Leaders included a call for accounting convergence in their statement at the conclusion of their summit in Pittsburgh last weekend.

The staff of Accounting Today presents its 2009 list of the Top 100 Most Influential People.

North Dakota accounting firms Brady Martz & Associates PC and Reichert Fisher PC plan to merge, effective Oct. 1, expanding Brady Martz’s presence across the state.

A New Jersey man has pleaded guilty to failing to report $6.1 million that he had hidden in secret Swiss bank accounts.

The Internal Revenue Service has agreed to extend until the end of the year a grace period for collecting penalties from small businesses accused of engaging in certain types of tax shelters.

Professional boxer Floyd “Money” Mayweather, Jr., has agreed to pay the IRS $5.6 million in back taxes to avoid having federal officials take the money from his winnings in a welterweight bout.