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Robert Hirth Jr. has been named chairman of The Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission.

Payroll provider SurePayroll said it is seeing rising optimism among small business owners, even as hiring and average paycheck size declined at their businesses.

The Super Note app is now in version 3.5, and creates color-coded tags to help organize to-do lists, take notes during meetings or conferences, and general daily planning.

The Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission, also known as COSO, has named Robert B. Hirth Jr., a founding managing director of the consulting firm Protiviti, as the new chairman of the organization for a three-year term, effective Monday.

Few new partners in today’s environment are handed the keys to the partnership, a book of business, with the simple expectation of “just don’t lose it.”

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The Securities and Exchange Commission has suspended trading in 61 microcap shell companies in an effort to prevent stock fraud, in the second largest trading suspension in the history of the SEC.

Marcum’s LGBT practice leaders sat down with managing editor Tamika Cody to discuss some of the inequalities LGBT clients face when trying to file taxes.

The chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Darrell Issa, R-Calif., revealed new testimony from IRS employees in Cincinnati who were purportedly involved with the IRS’s screening of Tea Party groups and conservative organizations applying for tax-exempt status.

Golf is a humbling game. No two courses are alike and there are so many hazards that you must avoid: trees, out-of-bounds markers, thick rough, water hazards and sand traps. Even during a good round, one bad hole can ruin your score.