CBIZ found that small business employment fell for the fourth month in a row in October.

ADP has released an updated and expanded version of RUN Powered by ADP Payroll for Accountants, an Internet-based offering designed to help accountants manage their clients’ payroll all in one place, which includes human resources and retirement services features.

The unemployment rate dipped one-tenth of a percentage point to 9.0 percent as employers added 80,000 jobs in October, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday.

A new study on the effects of taxes on small and midsized businesses has found that tax compliance is especially challenging for them because they lack the resources or scale to comply with complicated tax laws.

Small businesses generated 30,000 new jobs in October, according to Intuit, but the company found that employees are working fewer hours and earning less money.

SurePayroll found that optimism among small business owners jumped 20 percentage points to 53 percent in October from 33 percent in September, according to the payroll service provider’s latest monthly report.

Private sector employers added 110,000 new jobs to their payrolls in October, mainly in the service sector, according to the monthly employment report from payroll giant ADP.

The accounting profession has traditionally attracted high-caliber candidates, those with top-flight financial and technology skill sets and long on ambition.

Cloud financial management and accounting software provider Intacct has signed a sales, marketing and development partnership with Paychex.

Only 15 percent of the small business owners in a recent survey expect the number of jobs to increase at their companies over the next 12 months.

Bank of America and Intuit Inc. announced the availability Monday of Intuit Full Service Payroll for Bank of America small business customers, a service that performs employee payroll and payroll tax services.

The Internal Revenue Service has increased the maximum pre-tax contribution limit for 401(k) and 403(b) retirement plans, most 457 plans, and the federal government’s Thrift Savings Plan by $500, from $16,500 to $17,000, as a result of cost-of-living adjustments.

CBIZ reported a further drop-off in small business hiring in September.

SurePayroll found hiring at small businesses has dropped 2.7 percent year to date, while optimism among small business owners has fallen to a record low of 33 percent in September.

The unemployment rate remained stuck at 9.1 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday, despite the addition of 103,000 jobs.

The private sector added 91,000 jobs in September, according to the latest national employment report from payroll giant ADP.

Small businesses created 55,000 new jobs in September, while employees worked more hours and made more money, according to figures from Intuit Inc.’s Online Payroll clients.

Accounting Today has released its annual list of the Best Accounting Firms to Work For, which identifies and honors the best places of employment in the accounting industry.

While Southeast accounting firm Elliott Davis scored first in four categories of university and employer ranking Web site Vault.com’s Accounting Quality of Life Rankings for 2012, accounting firms shared the wealth in the other 11 categories.

The top factor in a failed hire, aside from performance issues, is a poor skills match, according to 36 percent of chief financial officers interviewed for a Robert Half Finance & Accounting survey.