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Employers in the private sector added 215,000 jobs from October to November, according to payroll giant ADP, in a sign of increasing strength across broad segments of the economy despite challenges like health care reform and the lingering effects from October’s government shutdown.

Top 100 CPA firm Grassi & Co. has officially launched Grassi Technology Consultants, a new subsidiary that moves the firm further towards technology consulting and potentially larger clients, but away from reselling.

A new report from Ernst & Young predicts an increasing number of women will be joining corporate boards.

The Senate Finance Committee has scheduled a hearing next Tuesday to consider the nomination of John Koskinen as the next Internal Revenue Service commissioner as the agency seeks to emerge from a series of recent scandals that have prompted the departures of a number of high-ranking officials.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board acknowledged Tuesday that a 1992 standard on accounting for income taxes did little to simplify the accounting.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board named 17 new members and reappointed members of its Standing Advisory Group, who will serve three-year terms starting next month.

Big data and bad data are proving to be a big challenge for tax departments at major corporations, according to a new survey that found them spending a disproportionate amount of time consolidating and gathering information, reconciling it, and detecting and correcting errors.

For a second year, New England accounting and consulting firm BlumShapiro collected and distributed food to provide Thanksgiving meals for more than 2,000 families and seniors in New Haven, Conn.

Sixty percent of CFOs believe the state of the U.S. economy will remain stagnant or worsen during the next six months, according to a new survey by Grant Thornton.

On top of the other problems associated with the troubled rollout of the federal government’s online health insurance exchange, the Internal Revenue Service is now being urged to strengthen the security and anti-fraud protections for the tax credits it will be providing to help taxpayers afford the cost of the insurance premiums.