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“If you want to win, you have to get up early.”

The national average salary for finance and accounting professionals is expected to decline slightly next year by 0.85 percent, with CFOs and treasurers taking an even bigger hit of 7.7 percent, according to a survey by staffing company Ajilon Professional Staffing.

Former UBS banker Bradley Birkenfeld played a crucial role in helping the U.S. government pry loose the names of U.S. account holders with money in the Swiss bank, but he’s nevertheless getting sentenced to 40 months in prison.

A federal court judge ruled in favor of General Electric in a tax case involving $62 million in tax benefits from a partnership arrangement that the IRS had claimed was a sham.

The daughters of the patriarch of an income tax preparation business were sentenced to six years in federal prison for filing false tax returns after their father received a 10-year sentence.

Seventy-seven percent of small business owners don’t plan to give raises in 2010, according to a new survey.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has released a draft of a five-year strategic plan that calls for “a single set of high-quality global accounting standards.”

The House has unanimously approved legislation to give the military and other overseas service members equal access to the first-time homebuyer tax credit.

Jeremy Roche, the former CEO of Coda who now runs the recently formed spinoff FinancialForce.com, sees lots of possibilities in the cloud computing market.