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Bill.com launched its new iOS mobile app for small business owners to manage and pay bills on the go.

Mailchimp's integration with Salesforce makes the e-mail marketing service an especially valuable tool, with the ability to cross-pollinate contacts and subscriber data between the two services.

Small-business owners like myself (and most of my clients) hate it when Microsoft releases a new version of their Windows operating system.

The American Institute of CPAs is asking Congress to pass legislation that would crack down on so-called “patent trolls,” companies that buy up old patents and threaten lawsuits unless they receive high licensing fees from firms and corporations.

An accountant who helped Bernard Madoff fudge trading records to cover up fraudulent transactions in the biggest Ponzi scheme in U.S. history won’t be going to prison.

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Over the years there has been no lack of TV series about the legal and medical professions, but for some reason the accounting profession has received relatively little attention. We think that should change and we have a few suggestions.

More than 80 percent of large corporations have been offered incentives by a state or local economic official for a new development or corporate relocation, according to a new study by Bloomberg BNA.

No doubt there are many fans of science fiction and fantasy among accountants, but what’s surprising is how many accountant characters there are in the genre.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has voted to defer the effective date of the revenue recognition standard for one year.

KPMG has entered into an agreement with Towers Watson, a talent and human capital professional services organization, to acquire the company's Human Resources Service Delivery practice.

Senate Democrats have introduced legislation to make the Tax Code gender neutral in the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling last month extending same-sex marriages to every state.

Highlights of some of our favorite tax-related blogs from the past week.

The Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department plan to amend the required minimum distribution regulations under Section 401(a)(9) of the tax code to address the use of lump sum payments to replace annuity payments being paid by a qualified defined benefit pension plan.

The IRS’s Taxpayer Advocate Service has developed several online tools to help taxpayers and employers estimate their tax credits and payments related to the Affordable Care Act.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has sanctioned seven audit firms for violating independence requirements in connection with audits of brokers and dealers, and sanctioned engagement partners at two of the firms for causing the violations.

Wealthy people have lots of ways to avoid the estate tax. But a federal judge says one family got a little too creative in dodging its tax bill.

The Institute of Internal Auditors and the Auditing Roundtable, Inc. have signed a merger agreement after more than a year of negotiations.

Mary Schapiro, the former chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission has joined the governing board of the Center for Audit Quality.

A tax strategy once used by the hedge fund Renaissance Technologies is attracting a new level of scrutiny from the IRS.