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Jul 18, 2025
The IRS is reevaluating how to gauge the more than 150 taxpayer service improvement projects it had been pursuing before staffing and budget cuts this year.
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Jul 18, 2025
The IRS's progress in improving tax compliance in recent years has been threatened by cuts in funding and hiring, according to a new report.
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Jul 18, 2025
Indiana CPA Society awards $24,550 in scholarships; Weaver and Herbein Co. relocate offices; and more news from across the profession.
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Jul 18, 2025
One of the biggest challenges facing internal auditing and accounting is recruiting the next generation of workers to each respective profession.
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Jul 18, 2025
Eliminating federal incentives threatens to upend the U.S. energy industry by hampering the rollout of wind and solar.
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Jul 18, 2025
Amid cost pressures, more than a third of finance leaders have paused at least some capital spending and cut costs in virtually all areas except for AI.
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Jul 18, 2025
Plus, Sage launches Tap to Pay feature; UHY offers CCMP accelerator courses; and other accounting technology news and updates.
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Jul 17, 2025
The annual list recognizes the 100 top workplaces in the profession.
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Jul 17, 2025
Sax, a Top 75 Firm based in Parsippany, New Jersey, has received a minority investment from Cobepa, a private equity firm with offices in Brussels and New York, the latest firm to receive a PE investment.
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Jul 17, 2025
Doeren Mayhew grows its firm in the Houston market by acquiring Reimer McGuiness Hess CPAs & Advisors, effective July 1, 2025.
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Jul 17, 2025
Andersen, the fast-growing professional services firm, has expanded to Atlanta by merging in Berman & Associates,.
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Jul 17, 2025
Can we really advocate for more CPA candidates when the accounting profession lacks the infrastructure and support to keep the ones we already have?
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Jul 17, 2025
Selling the OBBBA to the American people may prove to be tougher than passing it, even for a president who built a career on savvy branding.
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Jul 16, 2025
The Institute of Internal Auditors presented its updated competency framework for internal auditors during its international conference this week in Toronto.
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Jul 16, 2025
The Treasury Department and the IRS will need to roll out guidance to explain the bill's newer provisions and how they differ from earlier tax legislation.
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Jul 16, 2025
The Top 25 Firm is extending its outsourcing capabilities, particularly in the nonprofit and family office sectors.
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Jul 16, 2025
The accounting sector is poised to undergo its greatest reshuffling in generations.
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Jul 16, 2025
Plus, the agentic future of customer service and support; CEOs have mixed results with AI and cybersecurity; and upgrades to Microsoft Teams.
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Jul 16, 2025
The Queens assemblyman brushed off concerns about higher taxes by saying wealthy New Yorkers would stay put regardless.
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Jul 16, 2025
Windsor Path, a family office-backed platform for accounting firms, acquired WFFA Advisors, the non-attest business of Wagner, Fiber, Fine and Ackerman in New York City.
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Jul 15, 2025
OBBBA and gambling; a billing lesson from bookkeeping; BOI 2.0; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.
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Jul 15, 2025
Public Company Accounting Oversight Board chair Erica Williams is departing next Tuesday, July 22, after her agency narrowly avoided an effort to eliminate it.
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Jul 15, 2025
A major merger between two billion-dollar firms put CBIZ at the top of the list for new Securities and Exchange Commission Engagements.
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Jul 15, 2025
Many of the provisions of the OBBBA benefit businesses, but colleges and universities will take a hit, as will companies in renewable energy.
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Jul 15, 2025
Colleges and universities will also take a hit, as will taxpayers who depend on Medicaid, food assistance and owe money on their student loans.
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Jul 15, 2025
Deloitte said its auditors will now have enhanced agentic AI capacities within Omnia, the firm's global cloud-based audit and assurance platform.
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Jul 15, 2025
Here's why insurance-funded redemptions do not necessarily increase enterprise value and how a Supreme Court decision didn't reflect economic reality.
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Jul 15, 2025
Thomson Reuters debuted two agentic AI offerings that are aimed at improving tax and advisory workflows: Ready to Advise and Ready to Review.
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Jul 15, 2025
The IRS is giving payment and filing relief to taxpayers in the Lone Star State who were affected.
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Jul 14, 2025
The ink is hardly dry on the $3.4 trillion tax and spending package and House Republicans are already at work on a follow-up budget bill coming this autumn.
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Jul 14, 2025
The Trump megalaw's expansion of opportunity zone credits and other investment approaches comes with caveats based on timing and taxes.
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Jul 14, 2025
The Internal Revenue Service's plan under the Biden administration to audit high-income taxpayers appears less likely after staffing and budget cuts.
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Jul 14, 2025
The Big Four firm has acquired certain assets of a boutique firm specializing in fiduciary trust services, based in Cincinnati.
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Jul 14, 2025
The Big Four firm has acquired certain assets of boutique firm Trust Processing Solutions, based in Cincinnati.
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Jul 14, 2025
CPAs play a crucial role in helping property owners maximize their profits through advanced tax strategies.
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Jul 14, 2025
Don't risk everything you've built for a short-term saving on a template. In today's world, that's the difference between surviving and thriving.
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Jul 14, 2025
Wolters Kluwer announced a version of CCH Validate that is now entirely in the cloud.
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Jul 14, 2025
The VeritShield service offering is designed to help firms actively build and maintain a Written Information Security Program as required by the IRS.
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Jul 14, 2025
The president's signature tax law allows a long-standing business deduction for the cost of food provided to employees to expire.
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Jul 14, 2025
The sweeping $3.4 trillion fiscal package is already creating opportunities for segments of the energy and climate industries that had fallen out of favor.
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Jul 11, 2025
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board today sanctioned Goldman & Company, CPA's, Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton, and PWR CPAs.
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Jul 11, 2025
The Senate passed a bipartisan bill that would provide tax-filing relief for taxpayers in states that have issued state-level disaster declarations, sending the bill to President Trump for his signature.
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Jul 11, 2025
Wiss hosts third annual summer financial literacy program; Schneider Downs adds five shareholders; and more news from across the profession.
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Jul 11, 2025
Auditing card transactions for fraud and policy violations is a specialized task, one that auditors and finance professionals are trained to handle.
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Jul 11, 2025
Plus, Abacus announces $6.6 million seed funding for agentic AI assistants; and other news and updates from the accounting tech arena.
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Jul 11, 2025
AuditSight releases Management Meeting Module; Abacus announces $6.6 seed funding for agentic AI assistants; and other news and updates from the accounting tech arena.
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Jul 11, 2025
Auditors selected and paid by the companies they inspect can't affirm the credibility of the projects they assess, according to a research paper.
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Jul 10, 2025
Underhanded underground; down on the farm; reality check; and other highlights of recent tax cases.
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Jul 10, 2025
Smith Howard, an Atlanta-based Top 100 Firm, has opened two new tax practices: Site Selection Incentives and State and Local Income Tax Consulting.
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Jul 10, 2025
Tax clients are already starting to ask their accountants about the many changes in the massive One Big Beautiful Bill Act passed by Congress last week.
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Jul 10, 2025
The International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants and the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board set up technical groups for their standards.
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Jul 10, 2025
Auditors with uncommon first names tended to take a divergent approach to the rules, reducing earnings comparability, according to a new study.
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Jul 10, 2025
Financial teams often struggle to understand what's behind cloud costs.
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Jul 10, 2025
Finance professionals are in an unusual position where they sometimes must translate between engineering and business leaders.
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Jul 10, 2025
The Financial Reporting Council is probing several audits carried out by Deloitte and U.K. accounting firm Azets Holdings between 2017 and 2023.
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Jul 10, 2025
The Financial Reporting Council is probing several audits carried out by Deloitte and U.K. accounting firm Azets Holdings between 2017 and 2023.
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Jul 10, 2025
Ramp released of its first set of AI agents, "built and trained to think like your sharpest controller and work like a thousand of them—around the clock."
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Jul 10, 2025
A set of provisions tucked into the law has real estate developers and affordable housing proponents cheering — though some view it as a bittersweet victory.
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Jul 09, 2025
Matthew Becker, BDO USA's national managing principal of tax, has been ratified by a principal-wide vote to succeed Wayne Berson as the firm's next CEO, effective July 1, 2026.
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Jul 09, 2025
Meaden & Moore acquires ChainRing Advisors; Platform Accounting expands in Chicago.
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Jul 09, 2025
A joint report by the AICPA and Chartered Professional Accountants Canada said the rapid rise of AI opens up new opportunities for accountants to provide independent assurance of these systems.
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Jul 09, 2025
The PE-alternative Franklin Alliance acquired Robert Morris & Company in New Bloomfield, Pennsylvania, as it aims to create a platform of local CPA firms.
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Jul 09, 2025
Fraud prevention demands more than data analysis; it requires leadership, cultural development and strategic foresight.
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Jul 09, 2025
The Internal Revenue Service plans to shutter its Filing Information Returns Electronic, or FIRE, system.
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Jul 09, 2025
Executives at America's largest corporations watched Donald Trump sign a massive tax-cut bill without any change in their own companies' tax rates.
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Jul 09, 2025
Tax solutions provider Avalara released its newest AI offering, Avi for Tax Research, a generative AI-based solution embedded in Avalara Tax Research.
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Jul 08, 2025
The Internal Revenue Service has given churches and other houses of worship the green light to endorse political candidates.
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Jul 08, 2025
OBBBA and gambling; a billing lesson from bookkeeping; BOI 2.0; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.
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Jul 08, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court let President Trump move ahead with plans to dramatically reduce the size of the federal government.
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Jul 08, 2025
The International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board has revised its standard on the auditor's responsibilities relating to fraud.
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Jul 08, 2025
The number of CFOs who say now is a good time to take greater risks plummeted to 33% in the second quarter, down from 60% in Q1, according to a Deloitte survey.
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Jul 08, 2025
The IRS is warning tax professionals about a host of new and resurgent fraud schemes.
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Jul 08, 2025
The Top 25 Firm based in New York is expanding to Richmond, Virginia, by combining with a firm with specialized tax services.
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Jul 08, 2025
The Top 25 Firm based in New York is expanding to Richmond, Virginia, by adding a firm with specialized tax services, effective July 1.
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Jul 08, 2025
From bonus depreciation and R&E expensing to the higher standard deduction, the Trump tax bill covers a lot of ground.
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Jul 08, 2025
Now is an excellent time to expand your horizons and target millennials and Generation Z.
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Jul 08, 2025
Solar and wind projects that already had been pared back by Trump's $3.4 trillion budget bill designed to end green energy incentives.
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Jul 07, 2025
The impending end of support for Windows 10 has been delayed, giving accounting firms a little more time to make upgrades before it is officially obsolete.
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Jul 07, 2025
Asset managers are building products that give investors more control over when — and whether — they owe taxes.
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Jul 07, 2025
The bill is expected to push almost 12 million Americans off their health insurance, creating long-term financial issues for states and health-care providers.
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Jul 07, 2025
The bill is expected to push almost 12 million Americans off their health insurance, creating long-term financial issues for states and health-care providers.
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Jul 07, 2025
A loophole for religious schools was removed from the final tax bill, leaving the Indiana-based school to pay a higher levy on its $20 billion endowment.
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Jul 07, 2025
The Internal Revenue Service has declared 83 pieces of old guidance in the Internal Revenue Bulletin to be obsolete in accordance with Trump executive orders.
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Jul 07, 2025
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board gave reminders for auditors who audit smaller public companies in its latest staff publication.
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Jul 07, 2025
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board gave reminders for auditors who audit smaller public companies in its latest staff publication, "Audit Focus: Engagement Acceptance."
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Jul 07, 2025
The IRS's Criminal Investigation division needs to do a better job of keeping track of the billions of dollars in cryptocurrency, says TIGTA.
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Jul 07, 2025
Kristy Short shares best practices for keeping your staff — and yourself — from burning out.
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Jul 07, 2025
The American Institute of CPAs hopes to smooth the administration's transition away from paper tax refunds at the Internal Revenue Service.
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Jul 07, 2025
The American Institute of CPAs hopes to smooth the Trump administration's move away from paper tax refunds at the Internal Revenue Service.
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Jul 07, 2025
Accountants like Ed are as dedicated to helping their peers in the profession as they are to helping their clients.
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Jul 07, 2025
This powerful technology, capable of autonomously managing multiple accounting tasks, demands careful and responsible implementation.
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Jul 07, 2025
Business investors and wealthy Americans are among the biggest winners. Those hit the hardest include elite universities, who face new levies, and immigrants.
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Jul 07, 2025
President Trump signed his $3.4 trillion budget bill into law, enshrining an extension of tax cuts, temporary new breaks for tipped workers and funds for an immigration crackdown.
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Jul 03, 2025
Making use of refunds; playing defense; how to use thin air; and other highlights of recent tax cases.
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Jul 03, 2025
New FICPA chair begins tenure; Blue & Co. opens new office in Chattanooga; and more news from across the profession.
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Jul 03, 2025
President Donald Trump secured a sweeping shift in U.S. domestic policy as the House passed a $3.4 trillion fiscal package that cuts taxes, curtails spending on safety-net programs and reverses much of Joe Biden's efforts to move the country toward a clean-energy economy.
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Jul 03, 2025
House Republicans passed the wide-ranging Trump tax legislation dubbed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, overcoming resistance from a group of GOP holdouts and united opposition from Democrats.
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Jul 03, 2025
Plus, FileAI announces V2 platform launch; Foxit launches PDF and Document Workflow APIs; and other accounting tech updates.
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Jul 03, 2025
The American Institute of CPAs' Auditing Standards Board is looking for feedback on a proposed standard updating auditors' responsibilities related to fraud.
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Jul 03, 2025
The jobs report beat expectations, while the unemployment rate dipped one-tenth of a percentage point to 4.1%.
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