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Texas, New Hampshire and Utah are the friendliest states to small businesses while New York and California rank among the least friendly, according to the fourth annual Small Business Friendliness Survey.

The Financial Accounting Foundation has named Candace Wright as the next chair of the Private Company Council.

The Tax Court has held that the “unallocated alimony/child support payments” by a doctor to his ex-wife were non-taxable.

Brittenford Systems unveiled a new partner program for its ExpenseConnect and InvoiceConnect solutions for Concur and Microsoft Dynamics GP.

Between June 15th and 30th, employees from UHY LLP’s Michigan practice, in conjunction with UHY Cares, purchased and sported nearly 200 pairs of red and white socks to be a part of the “Ronald Sock Challenge”. The challenge is both an awareness campaign and fundraiser for the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Southeast Michigan.

A subsidiary of Big Four firm KPMG has added a team of professionals from Ewing Bemiss & Co., with expertise in the energy, power and utilities sectors.

Last December, based on a recommendation from the Private Company Council, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued a notable accounting standards update for intangible assets in business combinations.

You may find your clients worried that their identities, their credit scores and maybe their life savings will wind up at the mercy of some free-spending crook. What can you tell them?

Andrea Parness of A Parness Company CPA talks about how accountants can build better sites, in a video interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Dan Hood.

The IRS revealed today that approximately 220,000 more taxpayers than it had previously announced were affected by a breach in its “Get Transcript” Web app.