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SurePayroll Inc., a provider of online payroll services to small businesses, has found that optimism among small business owners has fallen to 59 percent, after being as high as 72 percent in the prior month, amid concerns about health care reform and the government shutdown.

Thomson Reuters’ WorldTrade Executive brand has released the latest edition of Global Transfer Pricing Solutions, a book that covers regulatory changes and provides analysis in the field of transfer pricing.

The Institute of Management Accountants has opened a new Competency Crisis microsite and community designed to give a variety of accounting and finance stakeholders, including professionals, students, employers and academics, a forum to discuss the issue of the talent gap in the accounting profession and come up with potential solutions.

BeachFleischman chief marketing officer Eric Majchrzak discusses some of the biggest challenges that marketers for accounting firms are facing, in an interview with Accounting Today senior editor Danielle Lee.

Grant Thornton has ramped up its expansion efforts in Japan, Italy, Paraguay, Bangladesh and Ethiopia.

Cloud-based nonprofit financial product maker Aplos Software is expanding its distribution channels, making its software available on Amazon as well as launching a reseller program targeting bookkeepers and accountants.

Congress should consolidate and simplify the types of tax-favored retirement plans now available to small business owners to minimize the cost and administrative burden imposed by the plans, the American Institute of CPAs told Congress.

Former Microsoft Dynamics channel sales executive David Warner has joined Intacct as its new channel executive, south central region.

Nonprofit accounting software maker Abila has renamed its product line to further enforce its brand name, including changing its signature fund accounting software to Abila MIP Fund Accounting.

Wayne Berson, CEO of BDO USA LLP, has been elected chairman of the Global Board of BDO International Limited. Berson will take over the role from Holger Otte, who is the CEO of BDO Germany.

U.S. Senate leaders are rushing to lock up an agreement to end the fiscal impasse, stepping in after House Republicans’ last-minute plan to avert a U.S. government default collapsed.

Mastering payroll compliance continues to be a challenge that many small business owners struggle to control.

New Zealand-based cloud accounting software developer Xero has raised $150 million in a new round of funding aimed at unseating Intuit as the small business accounting software leader.

Internal auditors, external auditors, board members and financial executives disagree over who has responsibility for deterring and detecting financial statement fraud, according to a new report.

The United Kingdom’s Competition Commission has published its final report on the audit market, proposing that publicly listed companies to put their audit contracts out for bid at least every 10 years.

The Income Tax School Inc. has introduced the All-States Individual Income Tax Guide, aimed at students of the company’s ITS Comprehensive Federal Income Tax Course in individual Form 1040 Individual Income Tax Preparation.

Teresa Mackintosh has been named president and CEO of CCH Tax & Accounting U.S., effective immediately, by parent company Wolters Kluwer.

Xero announced that it has raised $150 million to fund expansion in the United States and essentially help it compete against its primary rival Intuit and its QuickBooks product.

Michelle Golden, founder and president of the independent strategic advisory firm, Golden Practices, has agreed to join Top 100 Firm Kennedy and Coe as its newest shareholder and growth leader.

The Olympics are the biggest international sporting sport event, with athletes from more than 200 nations participating in what are generally considered the most important competition in the world. But are they worth it to the host city and country in terms of the budget and the eventual enormous expenditures?