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Paychex identified five issues it deemed of greatest importance to the country’s small business owners this election year.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board issued a proposed Accounting Standards Update Wednesday intended to simplify the accounting for a customer’s fees paid in a cloud computing arrangement.

Hertz Global Holdings said full-year results will miss the low end of its forecast because of challenges including industrywide vehicle recalls which prevented it from meeting demand and costs related to an accounting review.

FinancialForce.com announced FinancialForce ERP Summer ’14, with enhancements in professional services automation and financial management.

The perpetual drumbeat for tax reform continues to echo around Capitol Hill.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has released for public comment a staff consultant paper on standard-setting related to auditing accounting estimates and fair value measurements.

AICPA senior VP Lawson Carmichael discusses the mission and results of the institute's recent Task Force on the Future of Learning.

Libra Services has released LibraTax, a new software solution that lets individuals and businesses that have transacted business in Bitcoin and other digital currencies to calculate their tax obligations.

U.S. businesses paid $671 billion in total state and local taxes in fiscal year 2013, according to an annual study.

A post-implementation review conducted by the Financial Accounting Foundation of a 2004 accounting standard on share-based payment transaction said that it achieved its purpose and provides useful information to financial statement users.

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

The Internal Revenue Service needs to improve its strategy to ensure accurate reporting and payment of the Medical Device Excise Tax, according to a new report released by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

Ilieva Ageenko has joined Grant Thornton LLP as a managing director and leader of its Financial Services Advisory Model Risk Management practice.

Cloud accounting vendor FreshBooks has launched its FreshBooks Accountant Center, which gives accountants a secure portal to access their clients’ data and interact more closely with them.

The American Institute of CPAs announced that it recently enrolled its 400,000th member.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has added five more projects to its agenda for simplifying accounting standards, including short-term projects related to debt and tax accounting.

In case you haven’t heard, National Grandparents Day is just around the corner, on September 7.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has released a new report showing that auditors of brokers and dealers who were inspected last year continued to have a high number of problems with independence and audit deficiencies.

The Internal Revenue Service has denied tax-exempt status to a group that claimed it was dedicated to protecting the human rights of defenseless victims of involuntary microwave and mind control attacks.

The International Accounting Education Standards Board has issued a new plan to support the adoption and implementation of the recently revised International Education Standards for accountants.