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Free online bookkeeping and tax software maker Outwright.com is offering a new version of its mobile iPhone app with automated gas mileage tracking and receipt picture saving and storing capabilities.

Increased demand for its managed services business has caused Skoda Minotti Technology Partners to hire three seasoned technology professionals for the practice.

The London School of Business & Finance partnered with e-learning provider InterActive on the launch of InterActive TV, or IATV, an online channel that will broadcast accounting-related content for free 24 hours a day.

Less than two months ago Washington escaped from the doomsday scenario of the looming “fiscal cliff.” Now it faces the threat of the less colorfully named “sequester” or “sequestration,” depending on who’s talking about it, but somehow the dire warnings of impending disaster are beginning to sound unconvincing.

The Internal Revenue Service has filed notices with a federal district court and appeals court of its intention to appeal a judge’s ruling that struck down the mandatory testing and continuing education requirements of its Registered Tax Return Preparer regime and asked the court to suspend the January ruling that invalidated the RTRP regime.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board and the Governmental Accounting Standards Board will begin using a majority vote, instead of relying on the board chairman’s decision alone, to establish project plans and agendas, and decide on the priority of projects.

Greensboro, N.C., accounting firm Davenport, Marvin, Joyce & Co. took a big dive for charity Feb. 23, participating in its 13th Polar Plunge for Special Olympics North Carolina.

Private companies across the U.S. continued to grow their sales and expand their net profit margins last month, according to a new report.

Three cloud accounting software developers—Dave Clarke of Kashoo, Jamie Sutherland of Xero, and Scott Zanderberg of Wave—talk with Seth Fineberg of Accounting Today about how accounting technology is evolving and how their companies are addressing the challenges.

The Internal Revenue Service has released a favorable private letter ruling allowing WTP Exchange, an affiliate of WTP Advisors, to provide both like-kind exchange software and qualified intermediary services.