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CCH Small Firm Services will embark on a seven-city roadshow later this month to demonstrate the improvements made to its ATX 2013 professional tax software.

Senators Robert Menendez, D-N.J. and Pat Toomey, R-Pa., have introduced bipartisan legislation to help entrepreneurs start and grow a small business and comply with complex tax rules.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has announced sanctions against a New York-based audit firm, its founder, two other partners, and an audit manager for their roles in the failed audits of three China-based companies publicly traded in the U.S.

Derek Bang has taken on the role of chief innovation officer at Crowe Horwath LLP.

Intuit is now offering to connect small business users working in the new QuickBooks Online with a certified QuickBooks Online ProAdvisor from within the product.

A new report from the Government Accountability Office examines corporate tax deferral, highlighting the distortionary impact on the economy.

When it comes to working with entrepreneurs, there’s no hard and fast rule on how to best meet their needs.

The Internal Revenue Service expanded nationwide on Wednesday the rollout of its streamlined Fast Track Settlement program, which aims to help small businesses under audit settle their differences with the IRS over their tax debts more quickly.

The American Institute of CPAs’ Financial Reporting Executive Committee and the AICPA’s Impairment Task Force plan to release the final version of a new AICPA Accounting and Valuation Guide, "Testing Goodwill for Impairment," on Friday.

A bipartisan bill has been introduced in the Senate with the goal of simplifying income tax collections for taxpayers who work in multiple states.

A pair of senators have introduced bipartisan legislation that would rescind tax write-offs for illegal corporate behavior in an effort to hold corporate wrongdoers accountable.

Net@Work has hired former RKL eSolutions vice president of business development Anne Brennan as its new director of sales for business applications.

Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich., chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, has written a letter to Internal Revenue Service acting commissioner Danny Werfel urging the IRS to disclose all the information it has available to date on the eligibility determinations it has made for individuals who have applied for premium tax credits in the health insurance exchanges that went online last month under the Affordable Care Act.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has established a Center for Economic Analysis to study the role and relevance of the audit in capital formation and investor protection.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board voted Wednesday to move forward with preparing a final standard on revenue recognition that is expected to be issued during the first quarter of 2014.

The Internal Revenue Service does not always identify potentially mistaken claims for General Business Credits when processing tax returns, according to a new government report that found unsupported claims for the credits totaling $1.3 billion for 2011.

Xero has formed a partnership with Entryless, a new company focused on automatically generating digital general ledger records from bills in any format, physical or electronic, and syncs them into cloud accounting systems.

McGladrey LLP has signed a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all the assets of Houston-based Margolis, Phipps & Wright PC.

Former Sage Group executives Gary Boddington, Motasim Najeeb and John Schoutsen have joined the advisory board of newcomer cloud accounting and ERP software maker VersAccounts.

Hanna McGlone & Co. has agreed to join Smart Devine.