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  • Accounting firm announces new director of insurance tax services group

    Steven M. Greene, CPA, has joined the Pennsylvania office of accounting, tax and advisory services firm WeiserMazars LLP, where he will serve as Director in its Insurance Tax Services Group. Greene brings more than 25 years of federal and foreign...

    News • June 18th, 2013

  • Baker Tilly Names Seven New Partners

    Accounting and advisory firm Baker Tilly Virchow Krause, LLP (Baker Tilly) is pleased to announce it has named seven new partners to the firm.

    News • June 18th, 2013

  • CPA Honored with Lifetime Achievement Award

    Awards Ceremony Held in Arlington, VA on June 11, 2013

    News • June 18th, 2013

  • Electronic confirmation system helps uncover multi-million dollar fraud

    An investment fund owner and operator that defrauded investors of approximately $6 million has agreed to plead guilty to securities fraud charges filed by the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.

    News • June 18th, 2013

  • Online-only retailers branching out into physical stores

    Across the country, retailers that existed only in cyberspace are now opening -- or thinking of opening -- traditional stores at a time when e-commerce's explosive growth has spawned a slew of dire predictions that brick-and-mortar retailing will...

    News • June 18th, 2013

  • Survey: Oil and gas jobs to increase in 2013

    Survey reveals nearly half of hiring managers plan to increase hiring in the next six months.

    News • June 18th, 2013

  • The top factors that keep staff engaged and productive

    Flexibility, corporate culture and rewarding high performance are important to cultivate happy and productive employees, according to the Q2 2013 Engagement Study commissioned by Randstad, the second largest HR services and staffing company in the world.

    News • June 17th, 2013

  • New online payroll service automatically maintains state and federal payments

    Wave has announced the addition of Payroll Tax Service in 10 U.S. states.

    News • June 17th, 2013

  • IRS supervisor contradicts previous claims by others

    An Internal Revenue Service supervisor in Washington says she was personally involved in scrutinizing some of the earliest applications from tea party groups seeking tax-exempt status, including some requests that languished for more than a year...

    News • June 17th, 2013

  • New York CPA Society endorses new FASB tax proposal

    The New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants (NYSSCPA) expressed agreement with a proposal from the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) that, if implemented, would standardize the treatment of net operating loss carryforwards or...

    News • June 17th, 2013

  • State may end its sales tax holidays

    Introduced in 2002, the back-to-school tax holiday was promoted as an opportunity for lower income families affected by tax hikes to buy school supplies and clothing for their children. It is held from 12:01 a.m. on Friday until 11:59 p.m. on Sunday...

    News • June 17th, 2013

  • Housing market showing "real progress"

    Soon after the freefall started in 2008, building companies folded, real estate agents found different careers and buyers learned they could make offers as low as they wanted. Builders, agents, buyers and sellers scrambled to alter their strategies...

    News • June 16th, 2013

  • Experts offer investment tips for an uncertain economy

    This year's stock market surge has stalled and the market is too choppy to provide any sort of reassurance. Savings accounts earn practically nothing.

    News • June 16th, 2013

  • Problems at IRS jeopardizing health care law funding

    Mounting scandals at the Internal Revenue Service are jeopardizing critical funding for the agency as it gears up to play a big role in President Barack Obama's health care law.

    News • June 16th, 2013

  • Wholesalers report increase in prices of 0.5 percent in May

    A rise in food and gas costs drove a measure of wholesale prices up sharply in May. But outside those volatile categories, inflation was mild.

    News • June 16th, 2013

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