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IMGCAP(1)]Crisis, what crisis? That’s what some financial planners are saying as they look back to 2010. But for many other financial planers, the landscape of their financial planning practice has changed forever—some for better and some for worse.

The youngest generation in the workforce has become more engaged in the past two years learning about the benefits that can help protect them financially, according to a new study.

Former New York Governor and Attorney General Eliot Spitzer took aim at corporate influence in politics and blamed accountants, as well as lawyers and bankers, for allowing companies and their CEOs to get away with dodgy valuations and overblown compensation.

A former Oregon CPA was sentenced to three years’ probation and fined $1,000 for his role in a scheme to defraud a federally insured bank.

Online invoicing provider FreshBooks has introduced the FreshBooks Add-on Store, giving the software’s more than 2 million users a new way to find and buy integrated tools from the company’s business partners.

A Michigan accounting student was able to identify a more effective way to use an old investment strategy involving accruals to yield better returns, according to a new study.

A group of 10 Senate Democrats has written to Speaker of the House John Boehner and other House leaders asking them to reduce the budget deficit by eliminating unneeded subsidies and tax breaks for oil companies.

The Internal Revenue Service has begun a new voluntary disclosure program aimed at convincing more taxpayers to tell the U.S. government about any funds they have been hiding in foreign bank accounts.

Filmmaker Michael Moore has filed a lawsuit against movie studio head Harvey Weinstein and his brother Robert, alleging they used “bogus accounting methods” to divert profits from his documentary “Fahrenheit 9/11.”

The five states with the highest combined state and local tax rates are Tennessee at 9.44 percent, California at 9.08 percent, Arizona at 9.01 percent, Louisiana at 8.69 percent and Washington at 8.64 percent, according to a new report.