A survey of small business owners showed signs that some are less worried about the economy than they were three months ago.

The Maryland Association of CPAs has created an interactive job board, the MACPA Career Center, to give its members and the CPA profession at large a targeted way to make employment connections.

A new report from Ingenuity Marketing (IM) offers some eye-opening insights into what "millennials," or twenty-something staffers, expect from their existing or potential firm.A series of questions with four possible answers, covering such categories as recruitment, online branding, office space, and work style, among others, reveals some of the likes and dislikes of millennials.

New York Governor David Paterson has signed a bill expanding the regulation of CPAs throughout the state.

Accountant David Sarnowski, 50, has been arrested for stealing $1.6 million from a law firm client to support a gambling habit.

TaxTalent has introduced a new contract-staff Web site, TaxForce.com, aiming to match the top 20 percent of tax professionals with companies in need of their high-level services.

KPMG has named a new chief information officer and a new leader of its tax restructuring and corporate recovery practice.

Florida plans to cut the amount of time it takes to process exam scores for CPAs by more than half, reducing what had been a three-month process to less than a month.

Henry R. Keizer is global head of audit for KPMG International and also serves as U.S. vice chair, audit, for the U.S. member firm, KPMG LLP.

Accounting Principals has released a 2009 Salary Guide for Accounting and Finance Professionals with recent salary and compensation information from the staffing company.

In these tough economic times, as in others, there are many news items on companies declaring bankruptcies and announcing substantial staff cuts. What is different this time is that I am also reading about a number of cost-cutting strategies that are gaining in popularity and aimed at reducing expenses without disrupting business operations or laying off staff.

College students attending an Ernst & Young tax career event acknowledged they are seeing more interest on campus in accounting as jobs in the financial industry dry up.

Intuit has partnered with insurance company The Hartford on a Web-based service that processes workers' compensation insurance premiums for small businesses.

Payroll processor SurePayroll is offering free payroll-processing services to accounting firms for up to one year.

Accounting Today has ranked the Best Accounting Firms to Work For.

Colleges and students trying to understand International Financial Reporting Standards now have access to free course materials and case studies through Deloitte’s IFRS University Consortium.

Payroll-processing giant ADP reported that private sector employment fell by 693,000 in December.

Israel's fifth largest accounting firm, BDO Ziv Haft, has reportedly cut salaries across the board by 5 to 10 percent for all but the lowest paid employees.

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Inspired by the incoming administration, specialized accountants are listed among the most wanted new jobs, according to one career Web site.