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Universal Business Computing Co. is among the first to upgrade its payroll software to handle the provisions of the recently approved HIRE Act.

XBRL U.S. has launched the XBRL Consistency Suite, a set of online XBRL tools intended to help public companies identify the large amount of inconsistencies in XBRL documents related to the use of the XBRL U.S. GAAP Taxonomy.

First-year undergrads at Babson College in Wellesley, Mass. have come up with 16 new businesses as part of a management and entrepreneurship course.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has begun probing Lehman Brothers’ former executives and looking under the rocks at other financial institutions to see if they have been using similar accounting gimmicks.

NYSE Euronext has launched NYSE Money Sense, a new online educational resource for consumers to improve their money-management skills and knowledge.

Sallie Mae, the student lending giant that is being displaced by the federal government in providing direct student loans with the passage of the health care reform bill, has offered advice to students if their financial aid comes up short.

Workers who are offered 401(k) plans, or similar employee-funded arrangements, exhibit more proactive retirement savings behaviors, demonstrate higher levels of knowledge about retirement investing, and are more confident in their ability to retire comfortably, according to a new survey.

The Big Four’s affiliate firms in India may be circumventing the country’s laws by providing services such as auditing, tax, accounting and bookkeeping when they only have permission to do consulting, a powerful regulatory committee charges.

The Internal Revenue Service has updated its Web site to provide information to small employers regarding the new tax credit for providing health coverage.

PT Marketing, a firm that specializes in business-to-business appointment setting for the financial services and insurance industries, is gearing up its CPA Partnerships Appointment Setting program.