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It may seem ghoulish, but there does seem to be a controversy brewing over the appropriate tax treatment of sales of anatomical specimens such as human eggs and blood plasma, and even black market sales of kidneys and other vital organs.

The Tax & Accounting business of Thomson Reuters has released a state apportionment planning tool on its Checkpoint online research service.

The former CFO of the American Cancer Society has formed her own CPA firm.

San Mateo-based cloud computing vendor NetSuite and sales automation service provider InsideView have announced what they are describing as the first social intelligence application for both customer relationship management and enterprise resource planning software.

Pennsylvania CPA firms Zinman & Co. and Titcher, Kritzstein & Co. have combined forces.

The number of federal securities class-action lawsuits filed in the first three quarters of 2009 has fallen 25 percent compared to the same period in 2008, according to a new report from PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Sabrix has released the fall 2009 version of its outsourced sales tax system.

The International Accounting Standards Board has published a new standard on classifying and measuring financial assets to determine whether an asset should be measured at amortized cost or fair value.

Grant Thornton’s national managing partner of professional standards, John Archambault, has been appointed to the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board’s Standing Advisory Group.