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A new bill from a pair of Democratic senators would eliminate a tax break on corporate stock options.

You have likely seen square bar codes appearing on ads, catalogs and magazines everywhere. But what are they and what purpose do they serve?

RoseASP has introduced an iPhone app version of myGPcloud Mobile, giving users access to their Microsoft Dynamics GP information through their smart phones.

The Internal Revenue Service advised truckers and other owners of heavy highway vehicles that their next federal highway use tax return, usually due Aug. 31, will instead be due on Nov. 30, 2011.

There used to be this great TV spot for a large commercial bank that spoofed its competitors' overlong waiting periods before depositors could get approved for a loan.

TV producer Glen Larson, whose production company has created popular TV series such as “The Six Million Dollar Man,” Knight Rider,” “Magnum P.I.,” “Quincy, M.E.,” and “Battlestar Galactica,” has filed suit against Universal City Studios Productions, claiming the company's accounting methods reduced him to the equivalent of a “sharecropper.”

Ernst & Young has launched a new Web site to assist financial institutions in complying with the new U.S. tax regime under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act.

Balance Financial, a consumer finance software and services company, has introduced a set of bookkeeping products and services called Balance Certified Pro.

A federal court has permanently barred Howard Musin, his wife Jill Schwartz-Musin, who formerly worked as an IRS special agent, and their three companies from preparing federal tax returns for others.

As a graduate of the State University of New York Fashion Institute of Technology, and a career beginning in New York with companies including Giorgio Armani, Christian Dior, Jones Apparel Group and Avon Products Inc., I would have never expected to find myself employed within the field of accounting, let alone the industry’s 2011 Association for Accounting Marketing “Rookie of the Year.”