Bloomberg Tax & Accounting has enhanced its Accounting Policy and Practice Portfolio Accounting and Disclosure for Derivatives and Hedging Instruments. The additions reflect updated guidance from the Financial Accounting Standards Board, which have been among influences that have dramatically changed the hedge accounting arena.

 Two New Orleans, La., area preparers have been barred from preparing federal income tax returns for others. The two, Mario Alexander and Leroi Gorman Jackson, were booted from the tax business by a federal judge after the government accused them of preparing fraudulent returns using a variety of techniques.

Iris Software Group has continued its advance into the United States with the purchase of document management software company, Conarc. It is the fourth company in the accounting firm market acquired by England-based Iris in the last two years.