Executives at Automatic Data Processing did not receive bonuses for the year ended June 30. But a jump in two retirement funds produced decent increases in total compensation. In the case of CEO Gary Butler, his pay for 2010 rose by 16.2 percent as his pension and deferred compensation plans saw a 60.3 percent increase in value for the year.

TRACY, Calif. - Petz Enterprises, which markets the CrossLink professional tax line for high-volume retail tax offices, has opened a Southeast regional office in Rome, Ga. It's the second regional office the California company has opened in the last 22 months.

The SEC has received a court order freezing the assets of Paul R. Beckwith, a 37-year old Layton, Utah, CPA, after accusing him of transferring millions of dollars from Theradoc, a company that employed him as assistant controller, to an account controlled by his CPA firm. He is also accused of investing the money in his own accounts and of altering Theradoc bank records to cover up the diversion.

A broad-based change to Paychex's product bundling and pricing is on the way over the next week, founder and chairman Tom Golisano said in this morning's Webast of results for the first quarter ended August 31. And although results were better than expected, Golisano outlined a plan that he said is necessary to counter the deterioration of sales close rates, to make the company more competitive than it has been in the last few years and to look into international expansion.