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Private sector employment increased by 213,000 jobs from August to September, according to payroll giant ADP, as the job market continued to show consistent gains.

Gary Barton has made partner at Cotton & Company LLP. Barton joined the firm in February 2010 and has more than nine years of diversified IT audit and consulting experience.

As part of our Top 100 Most Influential People in Accounting report, we asked the candidates: "What is the most important issue currently facing the accounting profession?"

Muckel Anderson CPAs of Reno, Nev., has agreed to become a part of Top 100 firm Eide Bailly LLP. The merger will take effect on Nov. 3, 2014.

As part of our Top 100 Most Influential People in Accounting report, we asked the candidates: "What one piece of advice would you give young people entering the profession?"

Top 100 firm Reinsel Kuntz Lesher has merged in Darkes, Peachey & Wilbert to its practice. The merger took effect on Oct. 1, 2014.

While coping with a series of budget cuts and employee reductions in recent years, the Internal Revenue Service managed to increase the total dollars it received and collected for the third consecutive year, according to a new government report.

Global performance management solutions provider Tagetik announced the general availability of the latest version of its unified CPM software, Tagetik 5, during its annual global conference.

An Oklahoma federal judge dealt a blow to President Barack Obama’s health-care law, invalidating IRS rules aimed at making policies affordable for consumers around the country.

Audit and tax firm KPMG and Junior Achievement USA (JA) recently unveiled a redeveloped digital curriculum—complete with new technology and software—for the JA Finance Park program, as a means of increasing financial literacy in middle and high school students.