Accounting

As of Monday, Maine has adopted a new standard for who can be considered an independent contractor for Workers’ Compensation, unemployment insurance and other purposes. Until this week, the Maine Department of Labor, the Maine Workers’ Compensation Board and Maine Revenue Services each had different standards for who can be considered an independent contractor. This […]

The mismatch between existing and future jobs in Maine, and the workers willing and able to do them, applies across many fields, from hospitality to advanced manufacturing.

The FDIC has authorized directors-and-officers lawsuits involving 42 defendants in December in connection with bank failures, according to a summary last updated by the federal agency Dec. 13.

When Joseph Fields deployed to Iraq for the third time with the Kentucky Army National Guard in 2008, he and his wife, Heather, had big plans for their recently purchased 7-acre farm just outside Berea.

A former SunTrust Bank Vice President was sentenced to 10 months in federal prison for embezzlement and other related crimes Wednesday.

Philadelphia police commissioner Charles Ramsey has decided to fire Officer Elaine Thomas for an alleged tax scam, saying that a suspension wasn't enough.

Canada's executive chartered accountants are increasingly anxious about the U.S. economy heading into a new year, according to the latest CICA Business Monitor (Q4 2012).

A Montgomery accountant has been sentenced to 38 months in federal prison for embezzling about $440,000 from an elderly client's account, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced Wednesday.