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Briggs & Veselka Co. has initiated the "first phase" of its strategic growth plan with the acquisition of Houston-based White Garrison & Hill PC.
January 4 -
IMGCAP(1)] Randy Gregg has joined Whitley Penn LLP as partner in the firm’s assurance and advisory services practice.
January 4 -
Nonfarm payroll employment increased by 155,000 jobs in December, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday, but that was not enough to lower the unemployment rate of 7.8 percent as the pace of hiring appeared to slacken after strong gains in November.
January 4 -
The average paycheck size grew 0.1 percent in December, according to payroll processor SurePayroll, although month-over-month hiring dipped 0.1 percent.
January 3 -
Switzerlands oldest bank, Wegelin & Co., has agreed to pay $74 million to the United States to settle charges that it conspired to evade taxes with its U.S. clients, in the first-ever guilty plea to tax law violations by a foreign bank.
January 3 -
Cloud-based workflow management software provider XCM Solutions has hired former Fuoco Group director of operations Joe Manzelli Jr. as its new coordinator of outsourced workflow.
January 3 -
Payroll giant ADP reported Thursday that private sector employment increased by 215,000 jobs from November to December, driven in part by construction jobs in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.
January 3 -
Office relocation, fiscal cliff tax briefing and Hurricane Sandy relief efforts
January 3 -
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The IRS has updated income-tax withholding tables for 2013, reflecting this weeks changes by Congress. The tables, issued after President Obama signed the changes into law, show the new rates in effect for 2013 and supersede the tables issued on Dec. 31, 2012.
January 3 -
Commerce, billing and compensation product maker MetraTech Corp. has partnered with platform-as-a-service accounting product provider VerticaLive to enable customer enrollment, billing and payment management for ISVs and application developers using the VerticaLive Business Framework and for VerticaLive's new SMB-focused cloud accounting product.
January 3 -
Eric Majchrzak has been promoted to chief marketing officer and shareholder at BeachFleischman PC.
January 3 -
Gross, Mendelsohn & Associates, PA has merged with Cox Ferber & Associates LLC of Cockeysville, Md.
January 3 -
Peterson Sullivan LLP expanded its Seattle practice with the addition of Davenny & Associates PS.
January 3 -
A recent study finds that, as a general matter, forecasts from stock analysts of corporate earnings in which the numbers are rounded to the nearest zero or five not only prove to be significantly more inaccurate than those that strive for penny precision, but turn out to be significantly more upwardly biased as well.
January 3 -
President Barack Obama signed the legislation that enacts a last-minute budget deal and averts income tax increases for most U.S. workers, marking an end to a yearlong impasse.
January 3 -
Even though President Obama indicated only last Friday that the fiscal cliff deal likely to be produced by the January 1 deadline would be a basic package, lawmakers managed to come out with a surprisingly comprehensive set of tax provisions, some with long-lasting effects.
January 2 -
Sikich LLP has merged with Achieve Consulting, a supply chain consulting firm based in Warrenville, Ill.
January 2 -
Top 100 Firm, Kahn, Litwin, Renza & Co. Ltd., has agreed to merge with Fay & Associates.
January 2 -
Top 100 Firm, CliftonLarsonAllen LLP has merged with the Racine, Wis.-based CPA firm Jenkins & Vojtisek SC.
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