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The U.S. Department of Labor and the American Institute of CPAs have launched an interactive website to help small businesses select a retirement plan suitable for their employees.

Brett Siegfried has joined Weaver as a partner in assurance services in the firm’s San Antonio office, and the firm also added industry practice leaders in several of its other Texas offices.

CPA and consulting firm Jackson Thornton has promoted two accountants in its Montgomery, Ala., headquarters and created a new marketing position there.

A new academic study has found evidence that Sarbanes-Oxley 404 audits of companies’ internal controls significantly reduce the likelihood of issuing materially misstated financial statements.

IMGCAP(1)] In an ideal world, everyone’s fitness and health would be monitored 24 hours a day like something seen on “The Biggest Loser.”A team of fitness professionals watching your every move, conspicuous cameras catching even the slightest of “cheat” snacks, and a team of goal-oriented individuals surrounding you are just the highlights of what this kind of environment provides.The reality is that most people do not have access to these kinds of all inclusive environments.

While we await the lame duck Congress to find out if and how much our taxes will rise next year, it might be well to remember that government — and the programs it loves to fund — will only keep growing until it runs out of funding. Hardly any government will willingly reduce programs, cut funding, or otherwise act within reasonable limits.

A New Jersey man could be facing nearly a year in prison after he cashed a $158,174 refund check from the IRS that was supposed to go to his former employer.

Only 29 percent of CFOs and senior controllers in a new survey by Grant Thornton plan to hire over the next six months.

Mark Ernst, the former chairman and CEO of H&R Block who went on to become deputy commissioner for operations support at the Internal Revenue Service, will be leaving the IRS later this year, according to an announcement Thursday by IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman.

Tax preparer Kertena Seabrook has been sentenced to 27 months in prison and ordered to pay $171,152 in restitution after she was convicted on 20 counts of aiding and assisting in the preparation of false tax returns.