FAS Fixed Assets 2012 adds task-based navigation and dedicated functional working areas while a new graphical process map is offering to simplify conducting physical inventories. An Assistance Center offers customers access to industry best practices and outside resources.

Drake Software plans a special push to introduce the products of recently acquired Copanion to its installed base. It will also leave the maker of the Gruntworx line in operation as a separate company at its Andover, Mass.-based headquarters.

The National Association of State Boards of Accountancy and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants to the Statement on Standards for Continuing Professional Education Programs  framework for the development, presentation, measurement and reporting of CPE programs. These were last revised in 2002.