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Xero launched a new small business solutions marketplace to support its expanding ecosystem of 350 business solutions.

There’s an evil demon lurking behind your wall. It’s hiding in your AC outlets, just waiting to wreak havoc on your expensive PCs and peripherals.

Large, privately held companies in the United States are outpacing their publicly traded counterparts in two key performance metrics, sales growth and profitability, according to an analysis of financial-statement information from 2010 to 2014 by the financial information company Sageworks.

Small businesses with one to 10 employees saw a month-over-month increase in hiring of one-tenth of a percent this month, according to the payroll provider SurePayroll.

The Internal Revenue Service recovered $576 million in erroneously issued tax refunds last year thanks to outside tips provided by financial institutions and other sources such as tax preparers, more than double the amount from three years ago.

Burger King Worldwide Inc. agreed to acquire Tim Hortons Inc. for about C$12.5 billion ($11.4 billion) in a deal that creates the third-largest fast-food company and moves its headquarters to Canada.

Finding and retaining quality staff is a top issue for accounting firms of many sizes.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has named James Schnurr, a former vice chairman at Deloitte, as chief accountant.

Steven Egna has been appointed partner at Teal, Becker & Chiaramonte

U.S. Wealth Management president and CEO John Napolitano discusses how accountants can help clients find opportunities for financial planning when preparing their clients' taxes, in an interview with Accounting Today managing editor Tamika Cody.

There’s more than one way for a U.S. company to avoid taxes by claiming a foreign address.

Bank of America Corp. must set aside $490 million of its $16.7 billion settlement to cover taxes that borrowers face on forgiven mortgage debt.

New guidance for employees in the Appeals division of the IRS goes into effect in the first week of September.

Jennifer Elder and Travis Irving have moved up to shareholders at Perkins & Co.

A post-implementation review of an accounting standard for state and local governments on the impairment of capital assets and insurance recoveries found that it provides important information to users, but does not resolve all the issues it was meant to address.

The Securities and Exchange Commission is bringing charges against a telecommunications equipment maker and two of its former executives for improperly recognizing as revenue over a million dollars’ worth of inventory.

Acumatica unveiled its 5.0 beta release Monday at its largest Partner Summit to date, hosting more than 400 partners and customers.

Addappt will automatically update contact info in your electronic address book -- provided you can get your contacts to join in.

A recent call on a CPA client firm in the Midwest led to this exchange with the managing partner of the firm: “Greg….we just don’t have time to plan strategically, primarily because our clients are starting to feel the start of the boom and we are running like crazy to keep up with them.”

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