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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid plans to hold a procedural vote on extending unemployment benefits next Tuesday and a vote on the financial reform bill this Thursday.

Sage North America has released the latest version of its human resources management system, Sage Abra Suite v9, which includes mobile workforce collaboration and paperless automation for small and midsized companies.

Senators Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., and Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., have introduced a proposal to reform the federal estate tax, which temporarily expired this year but is slated to increase to up to 55 percent next year for estates over $1 million.

The Senate Finance Committee held a hearing Wednesday to discuss the soon-to-expire 2001 and 2003 tax cuts and how to extend any of them without increasing the budget deficit or hurting economic growth.

Skills beyond technical knowledge are critical when hiring experienced accounting professionals, according to a new study by Grant Thornton.

The Internal Revenue Service gave the following tips for job seekers on how they can deduct some of their job search expenses on their tax returns.

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Bank of America has fessed up to having shifted billions of dollars in debt off its balance sheet at opportune times in its fiscal calendar over the past three years, showing that the kinds of repurchase transactions that helped sink Lehman Brothers were not altogether uncommon.

The death of Yankees owner George Steinbrenner on Tuesday has saved the family an estimated $600 million on its taxes, thanks to this year’s disappearance of the estate tax.

Emerging Information Systems Inc. has launched a new financial planning software product, NaviPlan Select.