The Latest

  • Southeast regional CPA and business advisory firm Carr,Riggs & Ingram has bolstered its footprint in the Florida market by mergingin Davis Monk & Co., effective immediately.

    February 1
  • As expected, President Obama proposed a $3.8 trillionbudget for Fiscal 2011, including a projected record deficit of $1.6 trillion.

    February 1
  • Trained volunteers from the University of Central Missouri’s Beta Alpha Psi organization will provide tax help to people who cannot afford to file their own tax returns.

    February 1
  • IMGCAP(1)]Google has contrived a convoluted way to determine its income tax responsibilities to the U.S. and other taxing jurisdictions, in part by shifting income to its operations in Ireland.

    January 31
  • President Obama has fleshed out one of the jobsprovisions he outlined in last week's State of the Union address.The Small Business Jobs and Wages TaxCredit is intended to provide American businesses with short-term incentives tonot only create jobs but to increase wages and hours for Americans with jobswho face ongoing economic uncertainty in the current environment.

    January 31
  • Congressional auditors responsible for holding governmentagencies responsible for their financial integrity are doing a bang-up job -according to a performance review that they conducted on themselves.

    January 31
  • Grant Thornton UK said the U.K. Accounting StandardBoard's proposal to replace U.K. GAAP with International Financial ReportingStandards for Small and Medium Enterprises is a good one, but objects to thetransition deadline of Jan. 1, 2012, as insufficient to give most businessestime to prepare.

    January 31
  • An unenthusiastic Senate granted Ben S. Bernanke a secondterm as Chairman of the Federal Reserve, with a 70-30 vote underscoring thecriticism leveled at the central bank for its part leading to the financialcrisis.

    January 29
  • The economy grew at afaster-than-expected 5.7 percent clip in the fourth quarter, the fastest pacein roughly six years, according to figures from the Commerce Department.

    January 29
  • Bringing on and training interns might not be anything unusual, but this is what is – that a firm would actually send out a press release announcing their arrival.

    January 29