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Tax bills, tools and tweaks to products and programs topped this week's tech news, which by the way is now coming to you twice per week.

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The unemployment rate dipped slightly to 7.7 percent as employment increased by 236,000 in February, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday.

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The profession's confidence in the U.S. economy is growing even more strongly than before, according to the March edition of Accounting Today’s monthly Accountants Confidence Index.

Fewer corporate workers have sufficient cash flow and emergency funds on hand, according to a new survey.

Even as top executives at failing companies dump their shares, auditors of those same companies often fail to issue a going concern opinion to warn other investors of the precarious nature of the corporation’s finances.

Audit and risk management product maker ACL has released version 4 of its Analytics Exchange (AX) product —formerly ACL AuditExchange – with enhancements designed to enable adjacent departments, including finance, risk and compliance, to identify control deficiencies such as fraud and revenue leakage.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board released previously nonpublic portions of two of its inspections of PricewaterhouseCoopers on Thursday, saying the firm had failed to address the PCAOB’s quality control criticisms.

A Texas lawmaker who also operates a CPA practice has introduced a pair of bills in the Texas legislature that would exempt CPAs who prepare financial statements for small businesses from the state’s mandatory peer review program, and ensure at least two sole practitioners are represented on the Texas State Board of Accountancy.

Like most of you, I’ve already experienced my fair share of stress this busy season, and it has barely begun. In addition to the shortened filing period, many practitioners are facing significant software glitches. Those are tough challenges for firms like my own, which consists of myself, a seasonal employee and an administrative person.

A recent Bill.com survey of CFOs and finance managers found that 66 percent of respondents are now processing transactions from their device with the majority moving towards conducting more business via the cloud and mobile devices.

Fiondella, Milone & LaSaracina LLP promoted Angel Li and Alexander Morgan to tax partners in the firm’s Glastonbury office.

The International Accounting Standards Board has published revised proposals for loan loss provisioning as part of the financial instruments project that it has been working to converge with the U.S. Financial Accounting Standards Board, but the two proposals still take different approaches.

Sage North America is looking to enhance its channel partner program by adding a product and company scoring initiative as well as a dedicated market development fund to help fuel partner marketing initiatives.

Worker classification has long been an area only vaguely understood by many employers. The law is not only not settled, it’s unclear, going all the way back to the common law of England.

The top concerns of global accounting leaders, according to a new survey, included the needs of small- and medium-sized practices and small- and medium-sized entities and the reputation and credibility of the profession.

With lawmakers under pressure to find ways to reduce the deficit while avoiding the more painful spending cuts in the sequester, the Senate Budget Committee held a hearing to examine how to reduce the deficit by eliminating wasteful spending in the Tax Code.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board may be changing its rules on business segment reporting or issuing additional guidance in response to questions raised during a post-implementation review of a 16-year-old standard.