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Employment search provider Monster Worldwide agreed to pay the SEC $2.5 million in penalties to settle stock option backdating charges.

The Senate Finance Committee released a set of policy options for financing health care reform, including modifying the current tax treatment of health-related expenses.

Sage North America has upgraded its Peachtree accounting software line with new customer management, business analytics, workflow, security and other features.

Gen Yworkers are perceived by recruiters as the weakest performers among the fourgenerations now in the workforce, according to a poll by Internet careers siteJobfox quoted in The Chronicle Herald.

Super-regional CPA and business advisory firm J.H. Cohn LLP posted annual revenues of $246.4 million, an 11 percent rise over the year-ago period.

Among the tragedies inflicted on thousands of victims by Bernard Madoff was that perpetrated on a tiny accounting firm in New City, N.Y., a hamlet some 30 miles north of New York City.

BKD is expanding its presence in Texas by combining with KBA Group, adding over 100 people to the accounting firm.

Weaver and Tidwell’s longtime managing partner, W. M. “Mack” Lawhon, is stepping aside after nearly a quarter century at the helm.

Three quarters of executives in a recent survey by Deloitte reported increased concern over violating anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

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