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List & Reamy and Colton & Williams, of Vero Beach, Fla., have agreed to merge.

Congress gave final approval to legislation that would peg the interest rates on government-sponsored student loans to a market-based rate, ensuring that almost 9 million undergraduates will pay 3.86 percent interest on their next loan.

International Business Machines Corp., facing a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation into how it reports revenue from offsite cloud services, said it stands by its accounting methods.

I don’t know about you, but there’s nothing like blistering 90-degree days with high humidity and quick-forming violent afternoon thunderstorms to get your adrenaline going. Or going in the wrong direction.

The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board released its first set of industry-focused provisional standards on Wednesday, starting with the health care sector.

Self-described conservative and Tea Party groups seeking tax-exempt status were asked more questions by the Internal Revenue Service and had longer delays than progressive organizations, according to an analysis by the House Ways and Means Committee.

Liechtensteinische Landesbank AG, a bank based in Vaduz, Liechtenstein, has agreed to pay more than $23.8 million to the United States and entered into a non-prosecution agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York under which it produced account files of more than 200 noncompliant U.S. taxpayers.

While human resource executives say that skills-based volunteering enhances job prospects for college graduates and returning military veterans, according to a new survey from Deloitte, less than half of those surveyed students and military personnel view volunteering at a nonprofit as a way to develop skills and experience for their careers.

Accounting and finance professionals will need to have a global perspective in the years ahead, according to a new survey from Robert Half Management Resources.