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A tax preparer in the Bronx has been convicted by a jury on 43 counts, including corruptly impeding the enforcement of the tax laws, filing false tax returns for himself, and preparing numerous false tax returns for others.

The Internal Revenue Service plans to start fingerprinting thousands of tax preparers as part of its oversight program and run the fingerprints through an FBI database.

D.C. metropolitan-area CPA and advisory firm Bond Beebe will host its inaugural charity kickball tournament Oct. 1 to benefit Silver Spring-based charity A Wider Circle.

The American Institute of CPAs has stepped up its campaign to dislodge control of private accounting standard-setting from the Financial Accounting Standards Board.

The Sage Group plc, parent of Sage North America, said Thursday that it has reached a definitive agreement to sell Sage Software Healthcare, its subsidiary that offers practice management and electronic health record solutions to U.S. physician practices.

The federal government has secured commitments from 13 banks to increase their lending to small businesses by $20 billion over the next three years.

The Center for Audit Quality, along with the Council of Institutional Investors and CFA Institute, have written to the leaders of the House Financial Services Committee urging them to resist efforts to exempt more public companies from compliance with the internal controls auditing provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has released a new Accounting Standards Update aimed at improving employer disclosures for multiple-employer pension plans.

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