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The financial firms that suffered the greatest stock-price declines during the economic crisis tended to be those with the highest proportion of independent directors, according to a new study.

Intuit has chosen its highest-performing resellers at its ISP Summit.

Attorneys general in all 50 states have joined together to investigate widespread use of fake documents and signatures in mortgage foreclosures by lenders across the country.

The Internal Revenue Service took down its computer servers for scheduled maintenance last weekend, despite the fact that the tax-filing deadline for those who filed for extensions in April is at the end of this week.

For the second year in a row, the Social Security Administration is probably not going to provide a cost of living adjustment for Social Security recipients because of the low rate of inflation.

The National Federation of Independent Business’s Index of Small Business Optimism gained 0.2 points in September, rising to 89.0, but remained at recessionary levels.

Starting salaries in the accounting and finance fields are expected to rise an average of 3.1 percent in the coming year.

The Internal Revenue Service has added new lines to the Schedule M-3 for research and development costs and Section 118 exclusions.

Cohen, Doren, Addeo & Co. has joined Fazio, Mannuzza, Roche, Tankel, LaPilusa LLC, expanding Fazio Mannuzza’s presence in New Jersey to Jersey City.

More than three-quarters of companies that froze their pay over the last 18 months have lifted their pay freezes or intend to do so by the end of 2010, according to a survey of some 200 organizations.