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Employment at small businesses with fewer than 20 employees increased 0.04 percent in September, as small businesses added 10,000 new jobs, according to figures from Intuit.

Joining the ranks of top-tier colleges and universities to offer fully digital master's programs, the University of Miami School of Business has recently announced the launch of its online Master of Science in Finance degree, set to debut January 2015.

The Internal Revenue Service has strengthened the security of its e-Services registration process for tax professionals and taxpayers as identity theft and data breaches have become a greater concern.

Cindy Fornelli, executive director of the Center for Audit Quality, discusses the impact of regulatory and policy changes on financial restatements since Sarbanes-Oxley, in an interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Dan Hood.

Private sector employment increased by 213,000 jobs from August to September, according to payroll giant ADP, as the job market continued to show consistent gains.

Gary Barton has made partner at Cotton & Company LLP. Barton joined the firm in February 2010 and has more than nine years of diversified IT audit and consulting experience.

As part of our Top 100 Most Influential People in Accounting report, we asked the candidates: "What is the most important issue currently facing the accounting profession?"

Muckel Anderson CPAs of Reno, Nev., has agreed to become a part of Top 100 firm Eide Bailly LLP. The merger will take effect on Nov. 3, 2014.

As part of our Top 100 Most Influential People in Accounting report, we asked the candidates: "What one piece of advice would you give young people entering the profession?"

Top 100 firm Reinsel Kuntz Lesher has merged in Darkes, Peachey & Wilbert to its practice. The merger took effect on Oct. 1, 2014.