H&R Block News

Kansas City's Innovation and Entrepreneurship Conference A on Wednesday, June 20, 2012, will feature keynote speaker Michael E. Raynor , author of the The Innovator's Solution and director at Deloitte Consulting LLP.

Michael Gelphman found a way out. After 12 years of working in IT, for companies such as Embarq and H&R Block, the 35-year-old took the leap in February and devoted himself full time to his passion.

Rush Limbaugh, recently in hot water over his Sandra Fluke "slut" comment in the birth control debate, said this week "there'll never be fairness in the NFL without women and transgenders playing." More than 100 advertisers, including all his technology advertisers except for LifeLock, withdrew their commercials from "The Rush Limbaugh Show." For ... (more)

AMC Entertainment of Kansas City and the Cordish Co. of Baltimore are getting a divorce.Gerry Lopez, CEO and president of AMC, said Thursday the joint venture established with Cordish in 2005 to redevelop the historic Mainstreet and Midland theaters is expected to end soon.Could it be the seven-year itch? “We’ve had a joint venture ... (more)

Since 1914 when Congress first declared National Mother's Day, spending has grown to commemorate this occasion to a whopping $14.6 billion annually according to H & R Block "Talk." By contrast Father's Day declared by Richard Nixon in 1972, is still catching up with spending levels at "only" $9.4 billion.

H&R Block Inc. has chosen a former executive in General Electric’s subprime mortgage operation to be the tax preparer’s chief financial officer.Gregory J. Macfarlane had most recently had been the chief financial officer of Ceridian Corp., a human resources firm, where he worked from 2007 to 2011.

H&R Block named Gregory Macfarlane as its chief financial officer, a month after the top U.S. tax preparer appointed its incumbent finance head as the chief accounting and risk officer.

Kansas City, MO - infoZine -This year, the two organizations have teamed up to bring Kansas City one of the country's biggest and best innovation and entrepreneurship conferences.

Tom Gerke, senior vice president and general counsel for H&R Block Inc., has received State Fair Community College's 2011-2012 Distinguished Alumni Award.

Bill Cobb , President and CEO of H&R Block, will be the guest speaker at the Wednesday, May 23 CEO Series seminar sponsored by The Central Exchange at its downtown location, 1020 Central St., Kansas City, MO, from 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. the power of growth through talent management at one of the world's largest tax services providers, H&R Block The ... (more)

This year, the two organizations have teamed up to bring Kansas City one of the country's biggest and best innovation and entrepreneurship conferences.

Intuit , which is well positioned to take advantage of the migration of small business to the cloud, is scheduled to report fiscal third-quarter 2012 results tomorrow, May 17, after the end of the trading day.