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AccountantsWorld has begun selling unlimited payroll processing to accountants for $997 per year.

Hold onto your hats. Accounting and finance workers’ optimism about job availability and confidence in their own ability to find a new job decreased in the first quarter of 2009, according to a new survey. Somehow, this news isn’t quite shocking.

A Utah attorney who hasn’t filed a tax return since the 1980s was fined $250,000 and sentenced to three years in prison for impeding the Internal Revenue Service.

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., praised President Obama’s picks for chief counsel of the Internal Revenue Service and assistant secretary for financial stability.

A survey by the consultancy Rosenberg Associates has turned up some surprising, and some not-so-surprising, information on the economic downturn’s effect on accounting firms.

More than half of the business professionals polled during a recent Deloitte webcast said the level of transparency the Obama administration promises to attach to bailout spending is not possible.

WebCPA is donning a new design starting today, and I’d like to hear from you if it meets your needs.

XBRL US has published the 2009 edition of the interactive data tags that the Securities and Exchange Commission will accept for coding financial statements in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

AuditSolutions has changed its name to Lavante and closed on $5 million in venture capital funding.

The 39th Earth Day is here and Accounting Tomorrow wants to know, what is your firm doing to make its carbon footprint on the world less dense?