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.

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The financial community has focused on the executive house cleaning at the Thomson Reuters Markets Division this month. So during this mornings' earnings webcast, financial analysts asked few questions about the company's Tax & Accounting business which reported a 43-percent increase in operating profit, a 10-percent rise in revenue, and a nice jump in operating margin for the second quarter ended June 30.