Practice Management

Sage North America value-added reseller Mindover Software has signed a merger agreement with another Sage VAR, San Antonio-based Network Services Inc.

A Boston venture capitalist and director at the Boston Private Bank and Trust Company has been charged with failing to report his foreign bank account and income to the Treasury Department.

Burr Pilger Mayer Inc. has reached an agreement in principle to acquire the San Jose accounting and tax operations of CBIZ Inc.

A bipartisan pair of U.S. senators from Florida, Democrat Bill Nelson and Republican Marco Rubio, have introduced a bill that would simplify the tax-filing requirements of senior citizens.

The American Institute of CPAs plans to support a new tax simplification bill introduced earlier this month by a pair of congressmen that would make it easier to satisfy the tax-reporting requirements of workers who are employed in multiple jurisdictions.

Travel and expense management service provider Concur has launched the Concur Advisor Program, which is designed to provide accountants in public practice and small-to-medium-sized business consultants with products, training and support to better counsel their clients on expense policies and processes.

Meyers Norris Penney, one of Canada's largest accounting and business advisory firms, will merge in Toronto-area firm Retford Lane Bates, effective June 1.

Senator Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, has written to White House officials questioning why big banks are benefiting from a Small Business Lending Fund that was supposed to be used to help finance small businesses.

CBIZ and its affiliated firm Mayer Hoffman McCann have started a blog dedicated to construction accounting topics.

A group of six Republican senators has written to IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman asking about the agency’s recent move to impose gift taxes on donors to tax-exempt political advocacy organizations.