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A measure that would put the brakes on the Department of Labor's proposal to establish a fiduciary standard for advisors to retirement plans was approved by the U.S. House of Representatives in a largely party-line vote on Tuesday.

As more practitioners are accessing documents via their mobile devices, so grows the need for electronic signature applications like EchoSign, which is directly integrated with Adobe and allows users to get documents signed right from your iPhone or iPad.

PricewaterhouseCoopers and Booz & Co. have signed a conditional agreement to merge, increasing the Big Four firm's presence in the consulting business.

Caesars Entertainment Corp. was cited by the Internal Revenue Service for Bank Secrecy Act violations, according to a letter from U.S. investigators notifying the company of a money-laundering probe.

Employment in the private sector rose by 130,000 jobs from September to October, according to payroll giant ADP’s monthly National Employment Report, as the economy contended with uncertainty from the government shutdown.

At this point, most companies and even accounting firms have a profile on some sort of review site like Yelp, CitySearch or Google Local.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board plans to turn its attention to auditing standards involving revenue recognition, according to one of the PCAOB members.

The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service have released a document containing proposed guidance for foreign financial institutions as the next step in implementing the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act in an effort to combat offshore tax evasion.

This month, software vendor partner veteran Terry Petrzelka looks at where smaller consulting firms fit into a rapidly changing publisher/partner world, where their future lays, as well as how firms of all sizes may better use social media.

The American Institute of CPAs announced the 37 members of the 2013 Leadership Academy graduating class.