• Certified Public Accountant Laura Violante, a financial planner with Stone, Parker & Company, C.P.A., P.A., Port Richey, has received the Personal Financial Specialist Credential from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Violante met the requirements to earn the PFS Credential, which included passing a comprehensive technical exam covering personal financial planning topics, demonstrating more than 1,400 hours of business experience during the past five years and completing lifelong learning and education activities. The PFS Credential is granted exclusively to CPAs who are members in good standing of the AICPA, which binds them to the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct. ...more

November 27, 2009

Florida Hospital Heartland Division's President/CEO Tim Cook announces the appointment of CFO/Vice President Dima Didenko. ...more

May 31, 2009

The government's new stimulus plan offers tax breaks that will help millions of taxpayers when they do their 2009 returns next year. ...more

March 6, 2009

Tom James will step down as chief executive officer of Raymond James Financial in spring 2010 and hand off day-to-day leadership to St. Petersburg native Paul Reilly. ...more

March 4, 2009

Tom James will step down as chief executive officer of Raymond James Financial in spring 2010 and hand off day-to-day leadership to St. Petersburg native Paul Reilly. ...more

March 3, 2009

The accountant for the hedge funds run by Arthur G. Nadel has not been licensed in Florida since 1990, and he was once sanctioned by regulators for falsely claiming to be a CPA. ...more

January 24, 2009

Mary E. Wilson lost her job Tuesday as director of compliance and internal audits in the Highlands County Clerk of Courts office. ...more

January 8, 2009

Jeff Carlson is a certified public accountant. He's originally from Highlands County. He's married, and has two children. ...more

October 12, 2008

Gov. Charlie Crist announced this morning that he has chosen Judge Ricky Polston of the First District Court of Appeal to sit on the Florida Supreme Court. ...more

October 1, 2008

At a time when the nation's economic outlook is in a state of high anxiety, to get word that the state has defined your city as having a "financial emergency" of its own could understandably be enough to alarm concerned residents. ...more

October 1, 2008