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The Senate is expected to approve a jobs bill on Wednesday that provides tax breaks for companies that hire workers.

The former president and CEO of the Park Avenue Bank has been arrested and charged with attempting to embezzle more than $11 million from the Troubled Asset Relief Program.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has censured Gilman Ciocia and its Prime Capital Services unit for misrepresenting the variable annuities sold to senior citizens in South Florida.

International Accounting Standards Board Chairman Sir David Tweedie told a group of European finance officials that the IASB and the U.S. Financial Accounting Standards Board are on track to converge their standards by June 2011, after which there will be a period of stability in accounting standards.

The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, Dartmouth College and Rand Corp. have teamed up to launch a new Financial Literacy Center on the Internet.

A group of international accounting organizations plans to sponsor four new auditing research projects.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued its annual list of common tax scams to avoid, with tax preparer fraud and phishing schemes topping the list.

Calls to the Internal Revenue Service’s toll-free phone lines for tax help may exceed the agency’s projections this tax season.

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Sander Levin, D-Mich., has unveiled a draft of a new bill that would provide tax incentives to small businesses to spur job creation.

You might want to get in on this - the National Association of Asian American Professionals is hosting a webinar to talk about the Gen Y Perceptions Study.