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December 7, 2018 

The group’s winning presentation focused on a case in which a media company had recently acquired a theme park that included a gaming subsidiary. The students were tasked with determining if the company should continue funding the gaming subsidiary ...

December 6, 2018 

As subscription businesses begin to use billing as a competitive edge, constant change creates complexities and downstream implications for finance teams. Additionally, the ASC 606 and IFRS 15 accounting standards that were announced in 2014 will be ...

December 5, 2018 

American taxpayers can expect the Tax Law & Jobs Act to most significantly impact itemizers, homeowners, the self-employed and parents. Among the most notable changes, new standard deductions and limitations on itemized deductions will materially ...

December 5, 2018 

Looking back at the state of the labor market according to the monthly ADP National Employment Report and quarterly Workforce Vitality Report, the U.S. workforce experienced historic gains in 2018. Specifically, in 2018 the unemployment rate fell ...

December 5, 2018 

The AICPA’s Auditing Standards Board (ASB) has voted to issue a new auditing standard, Statement on Auditing Standards Forming an Opinion and Reporting on Financial Statements of Employee Benefit Plans Subject to ERISA.

December 5, 2018 

More than 50 percent of corporate B2B payments are still made by paper checks, according to a recent AFP survey. Virtual credit card payments offer an efficient, alternative way forward – minimizing the costs, time and manual labor associated with ...

December 5, 2018 

Leaders of the CPA profession, the regulatory community and representatives from critical stakeholder groups are joining together to explore possible changes to the CPA licensure model that embrace the need for expanded skillsets of professionals. The goal of the effort is to align licensure with how CPAs will perform services in an increasingly technologically-driven environment....…

December 5, 2018 

Launched this past summer, OnPoint PCR was jointly developed by CPA.com, the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) and CaseWare International Inc. By integrating content and methodology into a leading cloud platform, OnPoint PCR allows firms to enhance ...

December 5, 2018 

The holidays offer cybercriminals a chance to steal financial account information, Social Security numbers, credit card information and other sensitive data to help them file a fraudulent tax return in 2019.

December 5, 2018 

With the number of public companies declining sharply since the 1990s and more than $1.8 trillion in private capital raised in 2017, the marketplace is embracing RIVIO as a means to create transparency and trust in key financial data.

December 5, 2018 

As 2018 comes to an end, so does the window of opportunity to take advantage of certain tax and financial planning strategies. To help Americans be best positioned come Tax Day 2019, members of the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) share the ...

December 5, 2018 

Analytics have become an important part of the decision-making process for many companies in the past few decades, particularly with corporations using data assets as a core competency and point of origin. My work in the past few decades in the data ...