Payroll and benefits outsourcing concern Paychex has named Andrew Childs as vice president of marketing and Laurie Zaucha as vice president of human resources and organization development, effective immediately.

Small business employment continued to show growth in January, with hours worked and wages also showing modest increases, according to payroll figures from Intuit.

As the economy gradually recovers, some mature workers are feeling more comfortable about retiring now compared to last year at this time.

While the U.S. economy is gradually gaining momentum, the economic outlook in the U.S. among small-business owners has retreated over the past six months amid concerns about local economic growth.

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., and member Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, introduced legislation Wednesday to create job opportunities for veterans returning home from war and help businesses create jobs.

IMGCAP(1)]The big economic question these days is when is hiring going to pick up and the unemployment rate drop?

Nearly half of accounting and finance workers are likely to make a job transition in the next 12 months, according to a new survey.

The Treasury Department launched a pilot program Thursday to provide tax refunds on prepaid debit and payroll cards.

The unemployment rate fell four-tenths of a percentage point to 9.4 percent in December, as nonfarm payroll employment increased by 103,000.

Approximately 89 percent of public accountants in a recent survey believe that businesses will either hire more in 2011 than they did in 2010 or maintain the same employee count from 2010 in 2011.

Private-sector employment increased by 297,000 from November to December on a seasonally adjusted basis, according to the latest report from payroll giant ADP.

Small business employment continued to show growth in December with hours worked up and wages flat, according to the latest update of the Intuit Inc. Small Business Employment Index.

Government data and service software developer Legal Data Research LLC has released Track1099.com, a Web-based service for 1099-MISC e-file and recipient e-delivery.

Few early signs of economic recovery will get as mixed a reception as the news that salaries in accounting are likely to rise in 2011.

eSmartPayroll, an IRS and state-authorized online payroll and e-file servicer for a variety of tax forms, has released W2Manager.com, a new Web site that provides W-2 reporting or electronic filing to the states as well as to the Social Security Administration for the IRS.

What do Oprah, the BP oil spill and Lindsay Lohan all have to do with each other? Could it be W-2 and 1099 forms?

The start of the New Year ushers in a series of new regulatory, compliance and legislative changes that could potentially affect every small business.

The Internal Revenue Service released instructions Friday to help employers implement the 2011 cut in payroll taxes that were included as part of the tax cut legislation passed by Congress late Thursday night, along with new income-tax withholding tables that employers will use during 2011 (see House Passes Extension of Bush Tax Cuts and Unemployment Benefits).

Approximately 13.4 million taxpayers who received the Making Work Pay Credit that was included in the economic stimulus bill may end up owing taxes, according to a new government report.

IMGCAP(1)]Several months ago, I got an e-mail from a young CPA asking my advice about whether he should stay with his firm, or leave to start his own. He was depressed. He had lost respect for his partners during the recession, when the firm made what seemed like overreaching layoffs. In addition, they'd stripped away perks like telecommuting that he and many of his colleagues valued. And at the end of 2009, the firm leaders quietly celebrated a "very profitable year." Deeply saddened by this behavior at a firm he once loved, he wondered if it was time to move on.