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Net@Work has acquired the Peoria, Ill.-based Sage practice of CliftonLarsonAllen.

Employers added 182,000 jobs in the private sector last month, according to payroll giant ADP, although there were slowdowns in some areas, including professional and business services and among large companies.

MyRA, the Obama administration's free, guaranteed-return starter retirement account, launched nationwide today.

Branding. Advertising. Sponsorships. Those three activities were once the heart of accounting marketing. While they are still important, they are not currently driving most marketing activity. Today, it’s all about growth.

Liberty Tax offices with onsite health insurance agents opened on November 1 to offer taxpayers help with Obamacare enrollment and plan renewals.

Internal Revenue Service commissioner John Koskinen told a group of tax practitioners that budget cuts at the agency are harming not only taxpayers, but tax practitioners as well, and warned that unless Congress acts on tax extenders legislation, tax season might need to be delayed next year. At the same conference, National Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson complained of declining taxpayer service levels by the IRS and obstructions to the work of her office on behalf of taxpayers.

Good news for those happy with their accounting career: According to a recent Accountemps survey, nearly seven in ten accounting and finance workers would choose not to go back in time and change their career choice. The online survey developed and conducted by Accountemps polled more than 2,600 finance professionals across the United States, and found that by and large professionals want to stay put.

The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has just handed the American Institute of CPAs a victory in its dispute with the Internal Revenue Service over tax preparer credentials.

Small businesses continued to hire more workers last month, but the pace of job growth is slackening, according to a new report.

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