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More Americans are feeling optimistic about their retirement savings, according to a new survey.

Officials from the Internal Revenue Service are sending the message that the recent regulations for reporting on foreign account holdings are aimed at making the requirements easier to manage.

A bill advertised as creating jobs at small businesses and increasing their access to capital from the public markets would also knock down many of the auditing controls protecting investors.

KPMG names nat'l banking and finance leader

The Internal Revenue Service is staffing up with high-powered talent to crack down on companies shifting profits from country to country to lower their tax bills, a hot strategy the agency has targeted before with only limited success.

PricewaterhouseCoopers is seeing security risks to internal auditors, along with economic uncertainty and regulatory risks.

House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., has introduced a Republican-backed alternative to the Obama administration’s fiscal 2013 budget, including a proposal to consolidating the current six individual income tax brackets into just two brackets of 10 and 25 percent.

The accounting scandal at snack maker Diamond Foods in recent months may have shocked shareholders and some California walnut farmers.

Online accounting software provider Xero has partnered with the American Society of Women Accountants to support the organization’s educational programming.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has decided against undertaking a separate project to revise a controversial standard to account for uncertainty in income taxes.