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MADISON, Conn. and DEXTER, Mich. Build Your Firm, which provides marketing and practice management services to accountants, and the Tax & Accounting business unit of Thomson Reuters, have agreed to promote each others' products and services. Build Your Firm also offers Web-site development services while Thomson's products include the CS Professional Suite of tax and accounting products.

RIVERWOODS, Ill. – CCH has opened the CCH Learning & Development Academy, which it says provides a big-firm approach to educating professional staff, and which will provide certifications to participants who complete courses and enable them to become part of the Academy Alumni Community, where they can discuss technical and business issues. The Academy's first offering, a School of Audit will be followed by a School of Tax planned for next year.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Ceridian Benefits Services has found that the COBRA subsidy enacted by the U.S. government would have helped more unemployed workers if it required fewer compliance, paperwork and record keeping responsibilities from employers. The company's report was present to members of the U.S. Department of the Treasury this week by the American Benefits Council.

PARSIPPANY,  N.J. - Jackson Hewitt Tax Services has revealed the compensation of its chief technology officer and the VP who heads the subsidiary that operates its company-owned offices after determining that the two fall under SEC rules as named executive officers.