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Web-based accounting and business application developer Paramount Software has released several new features in its Crest Payroll system, including support for Web-enabled mobile devices, reporting of new hires to all states, client log-in access from a firm’s existing Web site, and the ability to move between fully automated or self-managed modes for all payroll processes.

MNP, one of the largest chartered accounting and consulting firms, said it would merge in Williams McGuire AML—a large anti-money laundering firm, effective January 1.

Nearly three-quarters of women in accounting and finance believe they face different obstacles from their male counterparts, according to a new survey.

The deficit reduction “supercommittee” in Congress appears increasingly unlikely to make any decisions on taxes before its impending deadline.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued a new revenue procedure that provides a safe harbor for Native American tribes to establish trusts for tribal members who are minors or legally incompetent for the distribution of gambling revenues under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act.

A new report from a Republican lawmaker details how, under the current Tax Code, the federal government is giving away billions of dollars to millionaires, subsidizing their lifestyles with taxes paid by the less well-to-do.

Investors and financial executives are increasingly feeling overloaded by the volume and complexity of financial disclosure information in annual reports and other financial filings, according to a new study.

IMGCAP(1)]Years ago I was working for a franchise company in New Zealand and as part of my role I would travel around the country talking with the individual franchise owners, their clients and potential clients about their business.

Financial Executives International has teamed up with the Center for Audit Quality, the Institute of Internal Auditors and the National Association of Corporate Directors on a new anti-fraud quiz.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board and the International Accounting Standards Board have tried to winnow down the priority projects on their convergence agenda to just three or four, but that hasn’t stopped interested parties from trying to get them to add more work to their to-do list.