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The Senate has passed a bill to extend unemployment benefits through the end of the year as well as a number of tax cuts that expired at the end of last year.

Charles McCall, the former chairman of prescription drug distributor McKesson Corp., has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after he was convicted for his role in accounting fraud.

Intuit Inc. has made its Intuit Online Payroll product available on the Google Apps Marketplace, effectively broadening the distribution of the Software as a Service payroll product to small business users. It is the first of Intuit’s products to be offered on Google.

The majority of executives in a new survey see a need for greater clarity about the Securities and Exchange Commission’s plans for International Financial Reporting Standards, according to a new survey by KPMG.

Here’s another study telling us what we already know – that university students choose job security over pay and benefits as a result of the economic downturn.

Amazon.com has cut off its affiliates in Colorado in response to a new law that requires Web retailers to send a statement to their customers every year of how much tax they should be paying on their purchases.

A Senate bill that extends unemployment benefits and a set of tax breaks that expired last year has passed a key procedural hurdle.

Americans' confidence in their ability to retire appears to be stabilizing, but their preparations for retirement continue to erode, according to a new survey.

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Sander Levin, D-Mich., and ranking member Dave Camp, R-Mich., have introduced legislation to allow taxpayers to claim charitable deductions in 2009 for Chilean earthquake relief.

Seven percent of CFOs plan to add full-time accounting and finance employees during the second quarter, the highest forecast since the first quarter of 2009, but 8 percent expect staff reductions.