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After many years with no test available for the Certified Information Technology Professional, exams will be mandatory for new applications in 2012. However, the 1,800 existing credential holders will be forever grandfathered, according to Jim Bourke, the CPA who heads the CITP committee of the American Institute of CPAs.

In his first year in the job, Alan Bennett, CEO of H&R Block, pulled down $5.7 million in compensation for the year ended April 21. The total was bumped up by a $2.5 million option award and $1.6 million bonus. Bennett, who joined the company on  July 7, 2010 was paid a base salary of $773,674.

Thomson Reuters is planning an as-yet-unnamed mobile application that would enable firms to interact both with client business and with those organizations' employees. The new capability follows the push by the company's Tax & Accounting business into the mobile market with an application to links to its Practice CS database.

Net income for the Bureau of National Affairs was down by 1.7 percent as revenue rose by revenue rose by only .8 percent for the 12 weeks ended June 18. The publishing company saw its different segments achieve mixed results as subscription revenue was upslightly but third-party online royalty revenue dropped $1.4 million.