Two Philadelphia, Pa., tax preparers have been accused of buying and selling personal identifying information of children to claim as dependents on tax returns. Nvahbulai Quisiah and Gofin Kosia, both 43 years old, each face six counts of aggravated identity theft. They have also each been charged on 17 counts of aiding and assisting in the preparation and filing of a false tax return and six counts of wire fraud.

Crowe has introduced a lease accounting application for government entties. The Crowe Lease Accounting Optimizer for public sector tool helps these organizations track, account and report on lessee and lessor leases to comply with Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) Statement No. 87.

Intuit has added the ability to have three accountant users to  QuickBooks Online Advanced. The software company this month also added enhanced custom fields, with small business users able to utilize multiple field types.