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IMGCAP(1)]When I was about to get married 20 years ago, my dad said to me, “Son, getting married will be the last decision you’ll ever make.”

The Financial Accounting Standards Board is already preparing for the post-Herz era and considering some new members to round out the soon-to-be seven-member board.

The Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation division is reportedly examining the books of the former Planned Parenthood Golden Gate, which lost its affiliation with the national Planned Parenthood last Friday amid questions about the group’s financial administration.

President Obama is scheduled to deliver a speech Wednesday in which he will reportedly propose a series of business tax cuts, along with new infrastructure spending.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued guidance on the purchases of over-the-counter medicines and drugs with flexible spending arrangements and health savings accounts next year in light of the changes in the health care reform bill.

The International Federation of Accountants’ Professional Accountants in Business Committee has released a paper highlighting how employer expectations of professional accountants in business are expected to change in light of global trends and evolving organization needs.

A jury has entered a guilty verdict against a former BDO Seidman partner who advised a client on how to include false items on his joint income tax returns for three years in a row.

The Labor Department reported Friday that non-farm payroll employment fell by 54,000 in August, largely because of government layoffs, including 114,000 temporary workers hired for the census being laid off, along with state and local government workers.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has written to Congress with a draft bill that would amend the Sarbanes-Oxley Act to allow it to make its disciplinary hearings of accounting firms and auditors public.

H&R Block is cutting costs and will be closing more offices before next tax season, allowing the company to reduce its continuing losses.