WebCPA Staff

Sage North America has introduced a complimentary service for Peachtree Accounting Software users, giving them free access for 30 days to its training library of over 50 online courses.

Rap star MC Hammer claims the IRS is giving him a bad rap after the government filed three tax liens against him, including one in July for over $625,000.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has published two lists of accounting firms that have not yet been inspected and jurisdictions in which it has inspected registered non-U.S. firms.

John Dunleavy, who led both the California CPA Education Foundation and the California Society of CPAs, has died.

Accounting and consulting firm Sikich LLP has acquired Levi Littell Herbst & Co., a boutique M&A advisory firm that specializes in transactions under $100 million in value.

Optimism among small-business owners has fallen for the second month in a row, according to a survey by the National Federation of Independent Business, mainly due to a decline in expectations that business conditions would improve in six months.

Accounting firm Lyndon Group has created a privacy leadership services practice area tailored to servicing local small and midsized businesses.

The Institute of Management Accountants has formed a new XBRL Advisory Committee to focus on the untapped market needs created by interactive data-tagging technology.

Bay Area accounting firms Greenstein Rogoff Olsen & Co. and Ronald G. Boyer Accountancy Corp., plan to merge on August 14.

The U.S. and Swiss governments have reached an agreement on a lawsuit in which the IRS had been seeking the identities of the U.S. taxpayers behind 52,000 secret accounts at the Swiss bank UBS.

Forty-six percent of the 1,000 corporations polled in a recent survey said they plan to reduce or eliminate employer contributions to their 401(k) plans or already plan to do so, even as their overall benefit budgets increase.

The Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards is proposing to require individuals who want to become a CFP to prepare an integrated, written financial plan and present it.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board plans to draft proposed updates to fair value accounting standards with new disclosure requirements.

Intuit has introduced Intuit ProLine Tax Research, powered by BNA, a Web-based service that integrates directly with Intuit’s Lacerte and ProSeries professional tax software.

Fox Coaching Associates has created HubStreet, a social networking site designed to bring together accountants, lawyers and bankers, and foster referrals.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has begun an investigation of Huron Consulting Group after the firm’s top management stepped down amid accounting irregularities.

A retired IRS agent who worked for a company that claimed to cut customers’ taxes has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison for taking part in a tax fraud scheme.

CCH has released the latest version of its TeamMate audit management software with enhanced management reportlng and issues-tracking features.

The American Institute of CPAs has named Robert Dacey, of Washington, D.C., Thomas H. McTavish, of Lansing, Mich., and Lena Ellis, of Ft. Worth, Texas, as the 2009 recipients of its Outstanding CPA in Government Award.

A federal appeals court has revived a lawsuit charging the IRS with depriving taxpayers of billions of dollars in refunds on long-distance telephone excise taxes.