H and R Block News

In "Who's on First", Abbot and Costello's most famous routine, the duo make reference to the fact that baseball players have some really strange names.

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.

Dividend stocks are more attractive to investors these days due to the decline in interest rates and with the recent reduction in the tax rate on most dividends.

Most regional stocks wrapped up a mostly unimpressive week with modest gains or losses Friday.The regional leaders included Sprint, Ferrellgas, H&R Block and UMB Financial.The losser list included Kansas City Southern, DST, Garmin, Commerce Bancshares and YRC Worldwide.Overall, aAnother flare-up in Europe’s debt crisis knocked U.S. markets ... (more)

Gregory Macfarlane has been appointed to the top finance spot at H&R Block Inc. He succeeds Jeff Brown, who will become chief accounting and risk officer.

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)

As a retirement columnist, I know it makes sense to wait at least until my full retirement age to file for Social Security.

Regional stocks wrapped up a second consecutive lackluster day on Wednesday, with small gains and declines.Leading the winners were H&R Block and Sprint, both up more than 2 percent.

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.

The Kansas City-based tax preparer said Macfarlane would lead all parts of its finance and reporting functions.

One key shift of late was H&R Block's April announcement that it would cut 350 jobs and close about 200 offices.

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.

In case you've been living under a rock, the cost of higher education has skyrocketed in recent years, particularly for out-of-state and private college students.

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.

The spring 2012 issue of Columbia Business School's Graham & Doddsville investment newsletter features close encounters with noteworthy investors such as Jim Chanos, Tom Russo and Julian Robertson .

InfoSpace Inc.'s first-quarter profit surged as the Internet search company's newly acquired TaxACT tax preparation business added substantially to its top line.

Next year’s Star 50* contenders already are flexing their financial muscles.

Regional stocks largely bounced back Monday after finishing last week with a thud.Among the winners locally were Sprint, UMB, Cerner, Kansas City Life Insurance Co.

Look at the billions pouring into Cerner Corp. faster all the time, and it’s hard to recall when the electronic medical records keeper was just a few guys trying to avoid going bust.Yet back in 1983, in the St.