The American Institute of CPAs has developed reporting options for organizations that utilize Internet-based services. The new Service Organization Control reports, formerly called SAS 70 reports, are designed to help companies that outsource services or tasks to third parties.

With its business showing a broad range of improvement, Automatic Data Processing is anticipating revenue growth of about 9 percent year-over-year for the year ending June 30. The company is also expecting about five percent growth in earnings per share, according to remarks made by CEO Gary Butler in the company's recent earnings conference call.

XCM Solutions, which markets workflow applications, and sales-and-use tax vendor SpeedTax, have joined in a program with scanner vendor Fujitsu. The companies says the alliance is aimed at educating accountants on the implementation and use of their products. The partners to hold events at conferences, possbily utilizing the common booths and having shared speaking engagements.