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CPA2Biz, the marketing arm of the American Institute of CPAs’ products and services, has added hosted Microsoft Exchange-based e-mail and collaboration services provider Apptix to its Trusted Business Solutions Provider program.

A pair of former executives standing trial for embezzling from the Russian oil company Yukos are claiming that PricewaterhouseCoopers withdrew its certified audits under pressure from the Kremlin.

The Internal Revenue Service has helmed a new video series, “Your Guide to an IRS Audit,” which follows three hypothetical small business taxpayers step-by-step through the audit process.

Small business owners’ confidence in the economy soured significantly from July to August in the largest one-month decline since November 2009, according to a new survey.

The Tax & Accounting business of Thomson Reuters has released Mobile CS, an iPhone app that provides mobile access to the company’s Practice CS practice management system.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board plans to host a public roundtable on its proposed standard for auditors’ communications with audit committees on Sept. 21, and is re-opening the comment period on the proposal until Oct. 21.

President Obama is proposing to expand and simplify the permanent research and experimentation tax credit, increasing the rate of the simpler form of the credit 17 percent to simplify the process for businesses.

IMGCAP(1)] Getting past blogger’s block

President Obama has not yet formally unveiled his plans for stirring up the sleeping job market through business tax breaks and infrastructure spending, but his ideas are already provoking skepticism.

Kelli S. Lewis, a principal in the tax and business services department at CPA firm Stone Carlie & Company, has been certified as an Accredited Estate Planner by the National Association of Estate Planners & Councils.