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The labor supply may experience shortages in coming years as more Baby Boomers retire, according to a study by KPMG.

XCM Solutions released XCM Version 6.0, the latest version of its workflow management software, at the 3rd Annual Accountants Technology Conference.

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The Treasury Department has expanded its financial bailout program to $700 billion in an effort to relieve banks and other financial institutions of their troubled mortgage assets.

The American Bar Association is urging the Financial Accounting Standards Board to delay implementing a proposed standard for loss contingencies arising from business combinations, warning of harmful, unintended consequences.

Washington, D.C.-With the hoopla of the Democratic and Republican National Conventions still reverberating throughout the country and the election less than two months away, Accounting Today will examine the tax plans offered by both Democratic nominee Barack Obama and GOP candidate John McCain as each vies to become the 44th occupant of the White House.THE OBAMA PLAN

The recent hearings by the Internal Revenue Services on its proposed preparer penalty rules under Code Section 6694 were the proverbial "last shot" for any concerns to be voiced before the rules become final.Five organizations - including the American Institute of CPAs, the American Society of Appraisers, Padgett Business Services, the National Association of Bond Lawyers, and H&R Block - took the opportunity to testify, while everyone acknowledged the efforts put in by the Treasury and the IRS.

PWC RESTRUCTURES GLOBAL NETWORKLondon - Big Four firm PricewaterhouseCoopers plans to reorganize its international network of member accounting firms, splitting them into three major geographic clusters.

In what is, I'm sure, a relief for most, I'll spare you my biweekly ramblings about the ineptness of Washington, the 2008 presidential race, the AMT or even whether the addition of Brett Favre will help push the New York Jets above the .500 mark.If your reading habits even remotely resemble mine, you most likely bypassed what we like to call in journalism "the news hole" of the issue you're currently holding to see who made the cut - and, by contrast, who didn't - in our annual Top 100 Most Influential People feature.

Our society has been gradually drowned by five-year plans and blue-ribbon commissions.Increasingly, those participating in such groups are from other walks of life than that which they are assessing.