U.S. small business employment declined in October, as did compensation and hours worked for their hourly employees, according to figures from Intuit.

ADP has enhanced the electronic invoicing offering from its ADP Procure-to-Pay Solutions (P2P) platform to help boost productivity for midsized and large businesses.

A couple who owned a Hollywood-area movie post-production company have pleaded guilty to fraud and theft charges after admitting to embezzling their employees’ payroll taxes and failing to remit the money to the Internal Revenue Service.

Lateral hiring of partners and leaders by accounting firms from competing accounting firms is on the rise, according to a new study.

Ernst & Young has been making a greater effort this Veterans Day and in recent years to increase its outreach to veterans and hire more members of the military to bring their leadership skills to the firm.

The staffing company Robert Half is projecting a 3.4 percent uptick in salaries for accountants next year, according to the 2014 edition of its annual salary guide.

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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.

Krista McMasters, former CEO of Clifton Gunderson and currently CEO of McMasters Consulting, discusses how female accountants can advance at their firms, in an interview with managing editor Tamika Cody at Accounting Today's Growth & Profitability Summit in Orlando.

Payroll provider Paychex has partnered with Biz2Credit, an online credit resource for small businesses, to offer the Paychex Small Business Loan Resource Center, an online resource that gives business owners access to more than 1,200 lenders offering various loan options for businesses’ specific financing needs.

The Tax & Accounting business of Thomson Reuters has introduced new bi-directional integration between its Accounting CS Payroll software and the Time Rack time, attendance, and human resources product.

There was lots of vendor and consultant news over the past week, but overall we want to know what’s up with all the funding going into cloud accounting software, and where exactly does Intuit factor in?

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.

New York-based Justworks has officially launched its online payroll and benefits platform, Justworks.com designed for new businesses to manage payroll and offer large-company benefits while ensuring legal compliance.

SurePayroll Inc., a provider of online payroll services to small businesses, has found that optimism among small business owners has fallen to 59 percent, after being as high as 72 percent in the prior month, amid concerns about health care reform and the government shutdown.

Mastering payroll compliance continues to be a challenge that many small business owners struggle to control.