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EDGAR Online Inc. has released its I-Metrix “As Reported” XBRL Dataset, which includes all the detailed information contained in every Form 10-K and 10-Q document furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission in Extensible Business Reporting Language format.

The group of economists that keeps more-or-less official track of economic cycles has decided that the recession ended in June 2009, even though most of the country is still feeling the effects.

The National Society of Accountants gave awards for Accountant of the Year and other honors at its recent annual meeting.

The Internal Revenue Service is trying to decide whether it should make so-called “soft notices” a permanent part of its automated program for encouraging more voluntary compliance by taxpayers.

House Republican whip Eric Cantor, R-Va., said in an editorial Monday that his party will resist any income tax increases in Congress, as the expiration of the Bush tax cuts looms at the end of the year.

There needs to be a distinction made in the accounting industry. The term “managing partner” is used to describe the leader or person in-charge of the firm; however this is not always the case. Some firms have a person with the title of managing partner but in reality, function more like a coordinating partner. So which one are you? In this post, I am going to make the distinction between a managing partner and a coordinating partner, as well as offer some suggestions to further develop your leadership skills.

During my search for a job while in college, I was offered two posts - a part-time hockey referee or a job as a waiter at a now-defunct budget steakhouse chain.

Taxpayers stuck in the current economic downturn will get at least some relief in 2011 thanks to the mandatory upward inflation-adjustments called for under the Tax Code, according to CCH

The Small Business Jobs Act that the Senate passed on Thursday contains a provision that the AICPA and cell phone providers have clamored for: the removal of “cellular telephones and similar telecommunications equipment” from the IRS’s set of “listed property” so their cost could be deducted or depreciated like other business property, without tiresome record-keeping requirements.