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Naurice White has a lot to be thankful for this holiday season.

In the classic film Casablanca, Captain Renault, thelocal constable, feigns shock when, in a raid on Humphrey Bogart's nightclub,he discovers rampant gambling. His prosecutorial zeal quickly evaporates whenhe is plied with his regular cut of the action.

Enterprise content manager Treeno Software has launched an integration module for the users of Intuit’s QuickBooks.

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., intends to introduce legislation next month that would keep a variety of tax breaks from expiring before the end of the year.

CaseWare IDEA and Houston-based Audimation Services have launched SymSure for IDEA continuous auditing and monitoring risk management software.

Thomson Reuters has introduced software to help corporate tax departments integrate the financial reporting and accounting data they need for preparing the tax footnote in an annual report with their corporate tax return data.

Baker Tilly Virchow Krause plans to merge with Beers + Cutler to create the 13th largest accounting firm in the U.S., with over $250 million in revenue.

The National Association of State Boards of Accountancy has elected Billy M. Atkinson, a Sugarland, Texas-based CPA and PricewaterhouseCoopers audit partner, as its 2009-2010 chairman.

Most states tax their middle- and low-income families far more heavily than the wealthy, according to a new study by the Institute on Taxation & Economic Policy.

Citing drops in its core QuickBooks revenue and typical “seasonal” losses during the first quarter, Intuit Inc. posted a loss of $68 million versus $52 million for the prior year for the period ended October 31.