Gordon Ramsay walked through the early morning Los Angeles haze into his restaurant in The London hotel on Sunset Boulevard last week, settled into a pink, crushed-velvet banquette, ordered a skinny latte and sighed.

A jury in Miami will decide whether accounting firm BDO International is liable for part of a $521 million judgment against a big U.S. accounting firm.

The opposition parties are crying foul after eHealth Ontario hired consultants to review the government agency's previous hiring of consultants.

FairPoint Communications Inc.'s annual shareholder meeting wasn't a big draw for shareholders, five of whom attended.

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service said Thursday it will recommend new federal standards for tax-return preparers by the end of this year.

Looking at Intuit's acquisition of PayCycle Inc, we might note that the alumni network can pay off and pay off big.

The IRS wants to start regulating paid tax preparers used by more than half the nation's taxpayers in an effort to reduce fraud and errors.

The Cato Corporation announced that John P. D. Cato, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, is a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2009 Award in the Carolinas.

The worst fears of workers at stricken van maker LDV were realised when administrators announced that most of the 850 employees have been made redundant.

Novatel Wireless, Inc. , a leading provider of wireless broadband solutions, today announced that the Audit Committee of its Board of Directors has selected Ernst & Young LLP to serve as its independent registered public accounting firm.

The global economic downturn has many venture capitalists altering strategies, including reducing investment levels in the short term, according to the 2009 Global Venture Capital Survey by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu and the National Venture Capital Association.

An indictment was filed today charging seven individuals -- three former shareholders of the Jenkens & Gilchrist law firm , the former Chief Executive Officer and a former tax partner from the BDO Seidman accounting firm , and two former bankers from a foreign bank with headquarters in New York -- with tax fraud conspiracy and related crimes ...

For venture capitalists, all eyes are on China. Though venture investors have been looking across borders for several years now and continue to talk about new opportunities in places like India, Vietnam, Russia, Brazil and Israel, Chinese entrepreneurs seem to have done the best job at capturing their hearts, or at least their pocketbooks.

KUALA LUMPUR, June 14 -- The Transport Ministry will send to Parliament tomorrow 300 copies of the PricewaterhouseCoopers Position Review on the Port Klang Free Zone for distribution to all Members of Parliament.

Venture capitalists expect their industry to grow increasingly global, as firms shift more attention to Asia and as institutional investors around the world seek to add venture funds to their portfolios, a survey shows.

NEW YORK The U.S. consumer magazine industry will recover modestly by 2013, but only after falling sharply in the near term, tamped down by the economic downturn and continued shift of readers and advertisers from print to digital, projects a new five-year forecast.

H&R Block Inc. announced today that Charles Elliot 'C.E.' Andrews is the new president of RSM McGladrey , effective June 29.

State-owned enterprise Meridian Energy is being forced to face up to bloated internal costs as it reviews its core operations.

Healthcare costs for U.S. businesses are seen rising by 9 percent in 2010, according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers survey, which showed that employers will expect workers to pay more of the bill.

Updated at 6 p.m. Great Plains Energy advanced 19 cents Thursday. The utility company tentatively negotiated a $59 million rate increase for its Kansas customers.

Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs , on medical leave since January, had a liver transplant about two months ago, a person familiar with the matter said.

This certification closely follows the certifications achieved by Verizon Business' IP Application Hosting Centers in Germany , Japan , the U.S. and the U.K., and its 15 Premium Internet Data Centers in North America .

One plans to bring new services to a low-income Hispanic community. Another wants to revitalize a small town devastated by a tornado.

Canada's forest, paper and packaging sector was the world's worst performer in 2008, accounting for half of the combined US$8-billion in record losses posted globally by the top 100 firms in the field, according to a report Wednesday.

MORRISVILLE, N.C. Jeweler Charles & Colvard said Thursday that its board has appointed Timothy Krist as its chief financial officer.

Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Monday's session are Apollo Group Inc., H&R Block Inc., and Amazon.com Inc.

Eastern Canada's softwood sawmills saw earnings drop off the most in the world during 2008 and the first quarter of this year as the global industry posted among the biggest losses in history, a report released Tuesday says.

Mon Jun 29, 2009 6:40am EDT - Accused swindler Bernard Madoff enters the Manhattan federal court house in New York, March 12, 2009.

The final valuation of KiwiRail was $369 million - more than half the price the Government paid for it.