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The estimated 72 million 401(k) participants have something to look forward to at the end of this month: On August 30, the Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration participant fee disclosure rule, dubbed ERISA 404(a)(5), will go into effect.

About 35 percent of women report using a financial advisor and another 35 percent who don't use an advisor would consider doing so, according to a new survey from Prudential Financial.

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced fraud charges and an emergency asset freeze against a Denver-based company and two Colorado residents for allegedly carrying out a $15.7 million Ponzi scheme that dragged in more than 120 investors nationwide.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board on Wednesday adopted Auditing Standard No. 16, Communications with Audit Committees, which establishes requirements that enhance the relevance and timeliness of communications between the auditor and audit committee, in addition to amendments to other PCAOB standards.

Information technology spending by the global wealth management industry will reach almost $35 billion by 2016, and will include heavy investment in digital channels, predicts global analyst provider Ovum.

A new whitepaper from Big Four firm PwC US says that internal audit departments should play a critical role in reducing their organization’s risk of data breaches and threats.

Travel and expense management service provider Concur has improved offerings for its now 3,000-member Advisor Program for accounting professionals and SMB consultants, as well as enhancing its Small Business Edition product.

Deloitte opened its Deloitte University facility about a year ago and it’s already using the campus to host forward-looking discussions on talent development.

Three former employees of J.P Morgan Chase Bank pled guilty in Manhattan federal court to participating in two separate tax refund schemes that used the identities of Puerto Rican citizens to obtain fraudulent tax returns.

Accounting and business software vendor Sage North America is holding its annual Sage Summit with thousands of its partners in Nashville, Tenn.

The Tax Court has applied the “self-rental rule” to recharacterize the income that the taxpayer-owner of a trucking company received from a separate leasing company that he owned as nonpassive income.

Sage North America is not formally endorsing a Master VAR-type program anytime soon — yet similar alliance programs are being established within Sage’s ecosystem.

Submissions for our September Accountant of the Month close next Friday, Aug. 17

Numbers Agent has released the first generation of its Software-as-a-Service accounting and bookkeeping service.

Stephen D. Mayer has stepped down as CEO of Top 100 California firm Burr Pilger Mayer, effective August 1, according to an internal email obtained by Accounting Today.

Thomson Reuters announced that it will be holding two Payroll Summits to show accounting firms how offering payroll processing to their clients can add to their profits.

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Arnett & Foster PLLC, of Charleston, W. Va., and Toothman Rice PLLC of Bridgeport, W. Va., have merged.

One year after announcing major rebranding plans for all of its products, Sage North America executives are now touting innovation -- particularly around cloud and mobile offerings -- all while still recognizing some partner discontent.

The Internal Revenue Service has made a series of enhancements to its Preparer Tax Identification Number system.