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INTUIT DEBUTS ONLINE PAYROLLQuickBooks parent Intuit has introduced a Web-based payroll system for small businesses. Intuit Online Payroll guides employers through the steps of setting up the system, paying employees and taxes, and filing tax forms. The system includes automatic calculations, to-do lists and e-mail reminders when tasks are due. The system currently does not integrate with Intuit's QuickBooks. Paychecks and pay stubs can be printed right away or issued through a free, built-in direct deposit service. The system provides printable tax forms for federal filings, as well as many state filings, including Forms 940, 941, W-2 and W-3.

Few firms are willing to do what it takes to attract the best and brightest talent. How many CPA partners have a son or daughter in public accounting? If you can't make the profession attractive to your own children, how can you sell it to their peers?Today's workforce is not as complex as some may think. In fact, most employees are merely looking for the basics: challenging assignments, opportunities to grow as professionals, authentic work/life balance and economic rewards.

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FLORIDABerenfeld, Spritzer, Shechter & Sheer LLP has won the 2007 Coral Gables Chamber of Commerce Diamond Award in the Large Business Category. ... Gilman Ciocia has opened a new office at The Promenade on South Bay Drive in Bonita Springs.

JANUARY7: Tax Law Update, National Conference of CPA Practitioners, New Jersey Chapter. Victor's Maywood Inn, Maywood, N.J. Contact: Fred Bachmann (973) 377-2009.

During my senior year of high school, my parents, incredibly, allowed me to purchase one of Detroit’s most ballyhooed musclecars – a Pontiac GTO.

Taylor Macdonald, Sage Software's former executive vice president of channel and sales operations, has joined Deltek as the business software developer's vice president of worldwide channels and sales alliances.

Tax prep chains H&R Block and Jackson Hewitt said they are not concerned by the Internal Revenue Service's proposals to restrict the marketing of refund anticipation loans and require consent before tax preparers can share taxpayer information with third parties.

A new wealth management firm is launching as a result of a merger between Yampolsky Mandeloff Silver Ryan and Citrin Cooperman & Co. LLP.

Glass Jacobson, a wealth management and CPA firm, has acquired Finkelstein & Geser, another firm also based in Owings Mills, Md.