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The Financial Accounting Standards Board has been sued for patent misappropriation and restraint of trade by a Silicon Valley technology company that has developed an alternative to fair value accounting.

Nearly one-third of public companies have no plans to use Extensible Business Reporting Language technology for their financial filings, despite an SEC mandate requiring XBRL use by 2011.

Bethesda, Md-based Bond Beebe sent a team of 30 firm volunteers to landscape a church in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of Washington D.C. as part of the Greater D.C. Cares Servathon 2010.

IMGCAP(1)]Whether you love it or hate it, personal networking is one of the best ways to build your business. But are you getting the most from your efforts?

Privacy, workflow tracking, document management and theuse of social networking sites were the top technology trends for accountingfirms expounded by WithumSmith+Brown partner Jim Bourke here at the 2010Accounting Technology New York show.

The American Institute of CPAs has created the SidneyKess Award for Excellence in Continuing Education, an award that recognizesCPAs who have made significant and outstanding contributions in the tax andfinancial planning areas.

Sage North America will offer Sage SalesLogix CRM Suiteto North American users via the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)infrastructure by June 2010, after which it will be expanded to other regionsworldwide.

While the vast majority of senior executives remainconcerned about the impact financial regulatory reform will have on theircompanies, half indicated a sweeping revamp could eventually be a "netpositive" according to survey from Big Four firm KPMG.

Private sector jobs increased by some 32,000, accordingto the monthly employment report compiled by payroll processor ADP and economicconsultancy Macroeconomic Advisors.

Just because women now make up 50 percent of the workforce doesn’t mean they are on equal footing with men. In fact, many women are still judged on a dusty stereotype – that they can’t control their emotions. A new book looks at this phenomenon and offers women reasons to hold back the tears in the workplace.