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The Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards has released a free “Consumer Guide to Financial Self-Defense” to help the public spot any red flags that could signal that they’re working with a crooked financial advisor.

A Queens tax preparer has been sentenced to three to six years in prison after he sent threatening letters to a prosecutor who was investigating him for stealing from his clients.

IMGCAP(1)]Check out the digital edition of the Sept. 27-Oct. 10, 2010 issue of Accounting Today.

A federal court in Pensacola, Fla., has sentenced three of nine promoters of a fraudulent tax-and-debt-elimination scheme to prison terms for their roles in tax fraud, wire fraud and money laundering.

Cloud-based document management software provider KnowledgeTree has partnered with Fujitsu to extend its third-party application interface, Hot Folders, to work with Fujitsu ScanSnap scanners.

The Internal Revenue Service disagreed with the recommendations of a new government report that it freeze more taxpayer refunds to give it time to validate them using information supplied by third parties.

Cloud-based accounting and compliance software provider OptionEase Inc. has partnered with national brokerage firm StockCross Financial Services Inc. to provide equity data tracking and broker services to joint customers.

IMGCAP(1)] Research is the key to developing a list of good prospects to focus your strategic pursuit efforts. The more you know about a prospect, the easier it is to determine whether that business or individual is worth going after and, if so, how best to do that.

IMGCAP(1)]Did you hear that a bunch of seventh graders recently discovered a cave on Mars? They were participating in the Mars Student Imaging Program at the Mars Space Flight Facility at Arizona State University. These kids are 12 years old. Recently, I took my kids to see Shrek 4: Forever After.

Financial Executives International has written to congressional leaders criticizing President Obama’s proposal to close foreign tax credit loopholes in exchange for making the research & development tax credit permanent.