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October 6, 2014 

The Advisory Board is partnering with the Association for Accounting Marketing to provide executive-level marketing sessions at the 2015 Winning is Everything Conference. The sessions are designed to ...

October 3, 2014 

A weekly roundup of professionals in the tax and accounting profession that have changed jobs and/or been promoted.

October 3, 2014 

Normally, a taxpayer may deduct travel expenses, including the cost of lodging, only when he or she is “away from home” on business. For this purpose, home means your tax home, usually the area surrounding your principal place of business ...

Ken Berry, JD

October 2, 2014 

Tenenz, Inc., which makes products and technologies for tax and accounting firms, has expansed its email marketing suite of products. Professionals can now choose from a variety of customizable, branded designs for digital client newsletters, memos, appoi

October 2, 2014 

Doc.It has been been selected to receive a K2 Enterprises Quality Award for its full suite of document management, workflow and document storage products for accounting professionals.

October 2, 2014 

Cabinet Document Management Solutions has launched Cabinet AP, a new module for its Cabinet SAFE product that is designed to automate manual processes in document-intensive tasks like accounts payable processing. Cabinet is a maker of electronic document

October 2, 2014 

The global Big 4 accounting and consulting firm KPMG LLP has acquired “certain” assets of the cyber-security firm Qubera Solutions. The companies say that the transaction will strengthen the KPMG network’s security transformation capabilities in several service areas, including Cloud Identity Federation, Identity as a Service (IDaaS), Identity Governance, and IAM solution implementation. “As threats...…

October 2, 2014 

Optimism among small and mid-sized business leaders is at a reported two year high, according to the Vistage CEO Confidence Index, the largest survey of chief executives from small and medium-sized businesses in the United States. And this vote of confide

October 1, 2014 

As the cost of college tuition has dramatically increased over the past two decades, there has been increasing debate about whether or not it is worth the cost for everyone, especially if it means years of potentially burdensome student loans.

October 1, 2014 

The Certified General Accountants Association of Canada (CGA-Canada) has joined the Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (CPA Canada), completing the integration of the country's national accounting bodies.

October 1, 2014 

Employees who have high stress levels at work also have lower engagement, are less productive and have higher absentee levels than those not operating under excessive pressure, according to research from professional services firm Towers Watson.

October 1, 2014 

FreshBooks, which makes cloud accounting solutions for service-based small business owners, has added its own online payments to the FreshBooks platform. The new offering allows business users in the United States and Canada to quickly set up ...