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More than 7.3 million older Americans — one out of every five citizens over the age of 65 — already have been victimized by a financial swindle, according to a new survey.

Sage North America has formed a new alliance with online legal service LegalZoom to give newly formed small businesses the tools they need to get started, including a free downloadable copy of Sage Peachtree First Accounting.

PricewaterhouseCoopers has surveyed a group of investors and analysts to gauge their attitudes toward the different approaches taken by the accounting standards boards to account for financial instruments, including loans.

The lower house of the Swiss Parliament voted Tuesday to approve a deal signed by the Swiss and U.S. tax authorities last year to disclose the identities of up to 4,450 U.S.-based taxpayers who have secret bank accounts at UBS.

The Association of Accounting Marketing plans to restructure its committees and subcommittees starting in July.

A married couple was convicted of running an elaborate tax shelter scheme for over a decade in which they marketed tax trusts to clients, filed lawsuits against IRS employees, and prepared a $108 million tax lien against former Treasury Secretary John Snow.

Here’s something you don’t hear everyday – an accounting firm actually owning and liking the fact that they are well, boring. One Sacramento-based firm has even gone so far as to rebrand itself with the tagline “Proud to be Boring Accountants.”

IMGCAP(1)]Over the last decade, “practice management” has become an industry unto itself.

Computer maker Dell has recorded a $100 million liability on its books in order to establish a reserve for the “potential settlement” of a long-running investigation by the SEC of the company’s accounting practices.

A new report finds that the majority of financial institutions and companies that received funds from the Troubled Asset Relief Program have resolved the unpaid federal taxes they had owed.