The National Association of State Boards of Accountancy has launched CPA Experience Verification, a service designed to provide a better organized and standardized experience validation and verification process for CPA licensure applicants. The service is available in nine states and Washington D.C.

Sage has launched the Sage Payment Center, an in-product service for businesses that use Sage 50 and Sage 100. The new service is designed to enable those users to apply for, activate and use the credit and debit card acceptance capabilities embedded into their accounting software. The company said the payment center will be embedded in other Sage products in future releases, but named only Sage One as being on the current plan.

A Nashville, Tenn.-based tax preparer faces a variety of federal charges stemming from alleged fraud on her own tax returns and on those she prepared for clients. Tracy Brown, who operated Total Tax Services, from her residence, has been indicted on six counts of assisting in the preparation of false tax returns, two counts of filing false personal tax returns and one count of obstructing the due administration of the internal revenue laws.