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Stephen Baldwin, a member of the Baldwin family of actors that also includes his brothers Alec, William and Daniel, appeared Friday in a Rockland County, N.Y., courtroom and agreed to pay $100,000 of the $343,068 that he owes New York State in back personal income taxes, penalty and interest.

The Canadian Securities Administrators, an umbrella organization of Canada’s provincial and territorial securities regulators, has proposed changes to its auditor oversight rules with the goal of giving securities regulators more insight into situations where Canada’s audit firm regulator has imposed sanctions on an audit firm.

Sage, Epicor and Intacct partner e2b teknologies has released Anytime Collect 2014, the latest version if its flagship accounts receivable management software which now features a browser-based design, improved communication workflow, redesigned screens and new icons.

BDO USA once again took the top spot among major firms in our quarterly ranking of new Securities and Exchange Commission audit clients, this time with a whopping 36 net new clients -- the result, largely, of a number of major mergers the firm completed over the summer.

Jackson Hewitt is gearing up this tax season to offer its tax customers help with signing up for the Obamacare health insurance marketplaces, despite the technical problems that have plagued the new exchanges since they launched at the beginning of this month.

The majority of the U.S. government, including the U.S. Tax Court, shut down on October 1. Late this past Wednesday, Congress voted to reopen the government through January 15 of next year. Despite the shutdown, the statutory deadline of 90 days for filing a petition in the Tax Court cannot be extended. Yet during the shutdown, the Tax Court was not accepting hand delivery and very likely was not opening its mail.

Jennifer Warawa of Sage North America and Jody Padar of New Vision CPA Group visit Yosemite National Park in California to talk about how accountants can stay connected with clients through mobile technology, even in a scenic wilderness area.

AccountantWorld has upgraded its cloud-based payroll-processing system for accountants, Payroll Relief.

The career outlook for women in finance and accounting has improved in the last 10 years, according to a new survey of CFOs by the staffing company Robert Half.

The American Institute of CPAs’ Financial Reporting Executive Committee has submitted a comment letter to the Financial Accounting Standards Board and the International Accounting Standards Board suggesting changes in the latest proposals for lease accounting standards.