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President-elect Barack Obama announced the key members of his economic team on Monday, including his pick for Treasury Secretary, New York Federal Reserve president Timothy Geithner.

The Internal Revenue Service has reduced the 2009 optional standard mileage rates used to calculate the deductible costs of operating an automobile, citing lower gas prices.

CPA firm Cottrill Arbutina Professional Services has acquired an eight-person tax and audit group from S.R. Snodgrass, expanding its reach in Western Pennsylvania and its auto dealership client base.

Got a new marketing superstar in your firm you want to recognize? Are they the type to push up their sleeves and get down in the trenches? Have their achievements caused heads to turn? If so, he/she could be the next Association for Accounting Marketing’s Annual Rookie of the Year.

CBiz has signed a deal to acquire Mahoney Cohen, a New York-based accounting firm that is expected to contribute about $55 million in annual revenue next year.

Got a new marketing superstar in your firm you want to recognize? Are they the type to push up their sleeves and get down in the trenches? Have their achievements caused heads to turn? If so, he/she could be the next Association for Accounting Marketing’s Annual Rookie of the Year.

A new report on President-elect Barack Obama's tax policies sees his mantle of change perhaps leading him to change some of his tax proposals as he works with Congress next year.

The American Institute of CPAs' business subsidiary CPA2Biz has signed a deal with Google to offer Google AdWords as a way for accounting firms to market and promote their services via local paid search ads.

An IRS revenue agent was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport after he was indicted a few days earlier by a grand jury on charges of tax fraud and obstructing an investigation into his tax return.

Rand & Associates has launched a program aimed at helping small businesses weather the financial crisis.