WebCPA Staff

While most clients see their accounting firm as a strategic advisor, 36 percent of business clients report they are likely to switch CPA firms in the next year, according to a new survey by CCH.

CCH has added public company audit capabilities to its ProSystem fx Knowledge Coach software.

Janice Dickinson, the host of “The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency” reality television series, has been on the receiving end of a $201,330 tax lien from the Internal Revenue Service.

President Obama and congressional Republicans are laying out their positions more openly on the fate of the expiring Bush tax cuts as they prepare for negotiations later this month.

CCH has created a new Innovation Lab that will allow the company to work directly with accountants and their clients to better understand their needs and design products to match.

An Internal Revenue Service employee has been indicted for embezzling nearly $4,000 in taxpayer payments to the IRS.

President Obama urged Republicans in Congress to agree on a compromise on the soon-to-expire tax cuts, even as the prospects for an agreement remained uncertain.

Amanda Meko has been named director of the Audit and Other Assurance Services Group at Greenwalt CPAs.

The rise in the mobile workforce and increased use of social media and cloud computing have created significant security concerns for organizations, according to a recent study from Ernst & Young.

Nonfarm payroll employment increased by 151,000 in October, but the unemployment rate remained unchanged at 9.6 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday.

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The Justice Department has asked a federal court in Chicago to permanently bar tax lawyer John E. Rogers, a former partner at the law firm Seyfarth Shaw LLP, from promoting tax shelters.

The International Federation of Accountants has released a policy position paper to address how the accounting profession should be acting in the public interest, with a proposed definitional framework outlining those responsibilities.

CBIZ and its affiliated accounting firm Mayer Hoffman McCann have acquired Kirkland, Russ, Murphy & Tapp, expanding the firm’s presence in Florida.

The Securities and Exchange Commission voted unanimously to propose a whistleblower program to reward individuals who provide the agency with high-quality tips that lead to successful enforcement actions for financial fraud.

Two of Intuit’s add-ons for its QuickBooks software received Awesome QuickBooks Add-on awards from the Sleeter Group.

Accounting and point-of-sale software developer Cougar Mountain Software has introduced Cougar iVault, an online data storage and backup service that offers data security, storage, and disaster recovery.

Ernst & Young has appointed a former Spanish government minister, Juan Costa Climent, as its global leader for climate change and sustainability services.

Six Texas-based CPAs won elections on Tuesday for seats ranging from the U.S. House of Representatives to the Texas Railroad Commission, while other CPAs around the country both won and lost.

Web-based document storage service SmartVault has received the 2011 Awesome QuickBooks Add-on award from the Sleeter Group.