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Payroll giant ADP reported that hiring in the financial activities sector increased by 9,000 in October.

On the eve of an election in a year full of rancor over whether taxation belongs at the federal, state or local level, corporate IT buyers are already getting a taste of how regional levies could affect their current costs and future strategies.

CCH, a Wolters Kluwer business, released new mobile applications to monitor the status of e-filed returns, as well as access to client data in ProSystem fx.

Cloud-based sales tax automation service provider Avalara has hired former Information Technology Alliance(ITA) president Ron Eagle as strategic advisor within the company's Accounting & Advisory Services program.

Cloud and mobile top the list of emerging technologies transforming the tax and accounting profession, according to the 2012 CCH Technology Survey, an independent nationwide survey of more than 400 accounting professionals.

The Internal Revenue Service is taking issue with a new report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration that faults the IRS for taking longer than expected to upgrade its computer systems to allow the use of SmartID cards for improved security.

Employees of Minneapolis CPA firm Froehling Anderson recently spent an afternoon volunteering at the local Voyageur Environmental Center.

KPMG LLP has elected P. Scott Ozanus to serve as deputy chairman and chief operating officer of the audit, tax and advisory firm. Ozanus succeeds Henry Keizer, who will retire at the end of 2012.

Transition Advisors president Joel Sinkin discusses succession planning for accounting firms and how they can prepare for mergers.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board is giving more time to people to comment on its proposals for clarifying financial statement disclosures as a result of Hurricane Sandy.