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SunGard and iShares are partnering on a system that will allow advisors and third-party administrators to incorporate exchange-traded funds as a standard option in retirement plans.

A new downloadable e-book aims to help CPAs, business owners, personal financial planners, and insurance consultants assess and modify their estate and financial planning to adjust to a volatile market.

House Committee on Small Business chairwoman Nydia Velázquez, D-N.Y., has written to the chairmen of two other House committees asking for changes in health care reform legislation to reduce the burden on small businesses.

Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., and John McCain, R-Ariz., have introduced legislation aimed at curbing excessive corporate tax deductions for stock options.

Chicago-area CPA firm Mueller & Co. LLP has successfully completed an independent peer review of its accounting and auditing practice.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has voted to adopt a new auditing standard on engagement quality review and to issue a concept release on requiring the engagement partner to sign the audit report.

A nonprofit foundation run by Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. is filing an amended 2007 tax return after it was found to have mischaracterized $11,000 in payments to officials as research grants.

The Financial Crisis Advisory Group has published a report concluding that accounting standards are not to blame for the economic crisis.

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Six accounting students from the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University brought home top honors from the 14th annual Deloitte National Student Case Study Seminar.