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Intelligize has introduced the SEC Checker to help with the preparation, analysis and review of SEC filings.

A whistle-blowing former Swiss bank executive has handed over two CDs containing the names and account holdings of more than 2,000 high net worth American, European and Asian customers to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

H&R Block has introduced a downloadable tax information app that users of the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch and Google Android devices can run.

Ken Cunningham has been named chief legal officer of Grant Thornton LLP.

Oprah Winfrey told Piers Morgan that the most difficult check she has to write each year is for the Internal Revenue Service, and she usually needs some tequila from her accountants when she signs it.

Citing an improving business environment, CFOs at large companies are more optimistic toward the outlook for their companies — even as their expectations on revenue and earnings growth moderate — according to a new survey.

The Senate has introduced bipartisan legislation that would give law enforcement access to tax return information that could help them locate missing children.

Three Democratic Senators have written a letter to House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, urging him to fix the 1099 reporting requirement in the health care reform law, and have pledged speedy action in the Senate if he does.

A troika of CPA executives, whose practices completed an aggregate of nearly 20 mergers during 2010, told attendees at this year’s Winning Is Everything conference here in Las Vegas that in order to craft a successful M&A strategy, a firm must have a unified vision and an internal champion to spearhead the program and never compromise its core values just to grow or add geography.

If you’ve ever wondered about how Web sites are tracking your movements across the Internet, as many of us do these days, then a handy utility could prove very useful and enlightening.