PricewaterhouseCoopers performance of manufacturing index dropped 3.4 points in June to 52.9. That is still just above the 50-point level that separates expansion from contraction.

The E.S.S. Pusuit is anchored outside the harbor off the tip of Fort Taber in New Bedford, Mass on Monday, June 7, 2010.

Lawyers involved in the legal battle between Sam Russell and liquidators to the Simclar business he closed with the loss of 420 jobs have agreed the case should be considered again in September.

DENVER, CO, July 03, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Global forensic accounting firm RGL Forensics is the only forensic accounting specialist on Accounting Today's Top 100 Firms of 2010, published in the March issue.

Public sector bodies face a growing risk of economic crime and fraud as spending cuts start to bite, new research showed.

Nothing's wrong with the productivity software standard, except for the price tag: It has one.

Microsoft is currently auditing the accounts of some of its Associate Distributors in the country and it further plans to cover all of them.

H&R Block Inc , the No. 1 U.S. tax preparer, on Wednesday said Chief Executive Russell Smyth had resigned and that board member Alan Bennett was named his successor, effective immediately.

At the time of the commercial paper crisis in 2007, risk management at the Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec was 'ineffective' and lagged behind 'market practices, an internal report by accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers says.

PricewaterhouseCoopers said the Financial Accounting Standards Board and the International Accounting Standards Board should slow down the pace of their standard-setting work, even though the two boards have recently extended the timeline for exposing new standards to the public.

Banks are drawing on research conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers which shows two percentage points would be sliced off economic growth Britain's biggest banks will attempt to alert George Osborne to the impact of proposed regulations.

Indian newspapers are just reporting that PricewaterhouseCoopers is setting up a service delivery centre in the western Indian metropolis Kolkata, a first of its kind entity for the global network and a joint venture between PwC in India, Australia, Canada, the U.K. and the US.

On July 1, Meyers Norris Penny took over 11 personal insolvency practices across the country from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP - one of them is in Prince Albert.

Model-Based Design Reduces Timing Analysis Time by 60% by Validating Requirements Prior to Hardware Development MathWorks today announced that TriVector Services used Model-Based Design to reduce the validation time on design of communication buses for NASAa s Ares I rocket by more than one year.

News Ltd chairman John Hartigan [PacNews] Australia's News Ltd is moving ahead with putting up the Fiji Times newspaper on the market, appointing consultants PricewaterhouseCoopers to advise on 'a possible sale'. Said News Ltd chairman John Hartigan: 'Selling the Fiji Times is not a certainty and it's not what we want.

Fuel Tech, Inc. , a world leader in advanced engineering solutions for the optimization of combustion systems and emissions control in utility and industrial applications, today announced that on July 13, 2010 it had named David S. Collins as Senior Vice President, Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer .

Second-quarter investments in media, entertainment and software startups nearly triple in size compared to last year, study finds.

It is with great pride BKD Technologies announces Charles Allen has been awarded Microsoft's Most Valuable Professional .

Cross-platform apps such as Firefox Portable Edition, OpenOffice.org Portable, and Audacity Portable will give your phone full PC capabilities.

The Rochester Top 100, which annually recognizes the fastest-growing privately held companies in the nine-county region, is sponsored by the Rochester Business Alliance and KPMG.

John Doerr has provided venture capital for companies such as Amazon.com, Google and Intuit.

IMAGINE that horrible though all-too-familiar feeling: You are standing before a fully stuffed closet and yet have nothing to wear.

PRGX Global, Inc. , the world's leader in recovery auditing and the pioneer in a new category of services called profit discovery, today announced that the company will release its financial results for the second quarter 2010 on Monday, July 26, 2010 after the market closes.

Edwin Floresreyes with Bill and Elsa Bragg in front of a Bill Bragg Plumbing truck on Guerrero Street in San Francisco.

If direct marketing brings to mind Publisher's Clearinghouse envelopes or Pottery Barn catalogs, this may surprise you.

Thomas J. Duffy, 50, of Franklin Lakes was named national managing partner of KPMG LLP's audit practice.

The Fiji Times newspaper which is 100 percent owned by News Limited has two months from tomorrow to sell 90 percent of its shares to locals, and Fijivillage has received information that a number of local investors have shown interest in acquiring the shares.

Bruce Rohde, former chairman and chief executive of ConAgra Foods Inc., has been named a director at H&R Block.

The Indian film biz is set to grow by 12.4% a year to reach Rupees 170.5 billion by 2014 from $2 billion in 2009, according to a report released by PricewaterhouseCoopers.

H&R Block has selected Fallon, a Minneapolis ad agency, to handle its advertising account.

Most regional stocks finished lower on the final trading day of July. The exceptions were YRC, up 1 cent, H&R Block, up 23 cents, and Inergy, up 84 cents.