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Accounting firm Clayton & McKervey has opened a Chinese Web site to attract Chinese businesses expanding to the United States.

Fifty-six percent of CFOs at U.S. technology companies are currently using cloud computing in some capacity, according to a survey by accounting firm BDO Seidman.

Influential accounting industry leader Stuart Kessler has joined J.H. Cohn as a director.

Roger CPA Review and Golden Gate University are teaming up to offer accounting students some help – they can now take CPA Exam review classes for college credit.

Not surprisingly buried amid the push for health carereform and the jobs bill was a statement from the administration that it wouldbe raising the assistance caps to mortgage concerns Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

No big surprises here, but the Government Accountability Office has found widespread material weaknesses in internal control in the federal government’s financial management.

Vrakas/Blum Computer Consulting has been named the No. 1 JobOps solution provider in the United States for 2009.

Freed Maxick & Battaglia has hired PR strategist and communications professional Emily Alexandria Burns as the firm’s e-marketing and communications specialist.

BizActions, a company that provides customized e-mail newsletters that CPAs can send to their clients, has introduced Dashboard 2.0, the latest version of its desktop application that displays organized, up-to-date information about clients’ newsletter readership.

The Internal Revenue Service has temporarily suspended the requirement to file a Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts for the 2009 and earlier calendar years, for people who are not U.S. citizens, residents or domestic entities.