ZenPayroll, which targets small businesses, has raised $20 million in funding. The cloud-based company intends to use the funds to accelerate growth, expand into new geographies and to hire more staff. The funding came from General Catalyst Partners and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

An Alameda, Calif.-based CPA and his firm have been barred from practice before the SEC. Sam Kan and Sam Kan & Co. drew the action for audits of the financial statements of four client companies, often performed by a staff member with no audit experience. The company also ordered to pay disgorgement of $40,000, $1,155.26 prejudgment interest expense and a $40,000 civil money penalty.

North American Tax & Accounting operations turned in 4-percent organic growth for 2013, Wolters Kluwer said this week. Software revenue growth for the CCH parent was offset by decline in bank product and print revenue last year. Meanwhile, the parent company reported earnings for the year were up while IFRS revenue was down 1 percent, although up 2 percent in constant currencies.

A Miami, Fla., CPA who repeatedly dodged scheduled dates for sworn testimony has been censured by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. Douglas A. Labrozzi, whose excuses included vacation plans, was barred from being associated with a PCAOB firm and registration of his firm Douglas A. Labrozzi CPA, was revoked for the refusal to cooperate with an investigation and for backdating audit documents.