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Internal auditors will soon be playing a larger role in ensuring the security of credit card information.

CCH has improved the search and navigation features in its IntelliConnect tax and accounting research service.

Reinsurance company General Re Corp. agreed to pay over $92 million to settle charges related to its role in separate schemes with AIG and Prudential Financial to manipulate and falsify their financial results.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board and the International Accounting Standards Board tentatively decided to define fair value as an exit price during a three-day joint meeting this week.

Jericho, N.Y-based Grassi & Co. is partnering with one of its clients to help raise money for Haiti after the country suffered a devastating earthquake last week.

IMGCAP(1)]Each January more than 100,000 people flock to the premier technology show in the U.S., the Consumer Electronics Show, held in Las Vegas.

The House of Representatives unanimously passed legislation Wednesday that would allow individuals who make charitable contributions to victims of the earthquake in Haiti to claim an itemized charitable deduction on their 2009 tax return instead of having to wait until next year to claim the deductions on their 2010 tax return.

Senator-elect Scott Brown’s victory in the Massachusetts race for the late Ted Kennedy’s seat was full of ironies.

SS&G Healthcare Services, the health care services consulting arm of accounting firm SS&G, has promoted four of its professional staff members.

Eighty-seven percent of small business owners say their business will perform at least the same or better in 2010 compared with 2009, and 57 percent are cautiously optimistic that the new year will bring an end to the pain of the recession, according to a new survey.