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WithumSmith+Brown has merged in another New Jersey-based accounting firm, Serluco & Co.

The Center for Audit Quality has named Mary Moore Hamrick as director of external relations and strategic planning.

Sage North America has picked Motasim Najeeb as the accounting and business software company's new chief technology officer.

The mausoleum set up by Roland Burris, the former Illinois attorney general named to succeed Barack Obama in the U.S. Senate by disgraced governor Rod Blagojevich, includes on a list of accomplishments the fact that he was the first non-CPA to be on the board of the Illinois CPA Society.

The Kansas Small Business Development Center has launched an enhanced Web site.

Southern California lender Valley Economic Development Center said it has received a $16 million infusion after it almost ran out of money to lend to small businesses.

The U.S. Small Business Administration plans to expand its Emerging 200 initiative, which supports inner-city small businesses, to five more cities in the spring.

Payroll-processing giant ADP reported that private sector employment fell by 693,000 in December.

There’s nothing like a good clear financial statement. And in a time when lenders are very stingy, those basic reports are more valuable than ever. In fact, this is one of those times that good accounting and advisory services are more valuable than ever.

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