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CCH has expanded its Expert Treatise Library with two new titles on the subject of corporate taxation.

Tax prep chain Jackson Hewitt said that one of its tax preparers is among the first to receive the IRS’s new designation of Registered Tax Return Preparer.

LinkedIn has recently launched a special group for accountants that is already attracting a growing group of accountants.

Nitting Joins J.H. Cohn as Partner

CBIZ is reporting a slight increase in hiring at small businesses in February.

Certain industries in which clients operate increase an accountant’s risk exposure and those with high risk scores are especially precarious.

AICPA 2012 Top 10 Tech Initiatives

Financial Web application and database software company NetWorth Services has released 8949 Verifier, a Web-based application designed to allows tax professionals to examine their clients’ 8949 forms instantly for accuracy prior to filing them with the IRS.

The Internal Revenue Service has introduced an online search tool that will allow the public to easily check on information about tax-exempt organizations, such as charities and other nonprofits.

Technology consultancy Arxis Technology has formed Arxis Cloud Solutions, a new division focused on implementation of its SaaS product offerings and education about them.

Cloud-based financial planning and reporting technology provider Adaptive Planning has secured $22 million in new venture financing, which will be earmarked for global expansion, product development and channel growth.

Information security, remote access, and control and use of mobile devices will have the greatest impact on CPAs’ technology initiatives over the next 12 months, according to the American Institute of CPAs’ 2012 Top Technology Initiatives Survey.

A former bank executive has filed suit against the Internal Revenue Service for failing to pay him a whistleblower award.

The confidence of Americans in their ability to afford a comfortable retirement remains at historically low levels, according to a new survey.

An amendment to a highway transportation bill that would have extended expired tax credits such as the Research and Experimentation Credit in exchange for freezing the salaries of federal employees for another year has gone down to defeat in the Senate.

Forty percent of senior finance executives at midsize companies say that lack of bargaining power with customers and suppliers is their biggest obstacle in improving cash and working capital management.

The National Taxpayer Advocate is raising concerns about the effectiveness of the Internal Revenue Service’s increasing reliance on correspondence exams instead of face-to-face audits.

Corporate audit giant Ernst & Young operates a lobbying firm in Washington, D.C., that has been hired in recent years by several corporations that were at the same time E&Y audit clients, prompting two senior lawmakers to demand closer regulatory scrutiny.

The world's largest accounting and auditing firms, known as the Big Four, have been pumping more money than ever before into U.S. lobbying and political campaigns as they confront new challenges from their regulator and Congress.

Regulators are seriously seven major changes in financial reporting that could be game changers for accountants.