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August 6, 2018 

These integrations enable customers of Avalara partner solutions to benefit from Avalara’s real-time calculation of applicable taxes, fees, and surcharges for billing line items. Avalara software reduces the tedium and complexity of determining taxes ...

August 6, 2018 

Depending upon your version of Excel, the Table feature is the second or third command from the left on the Insert menu. Ostensibly this feature makes filtering lists of data easier, but it offers many other benefits, and one frustrating side-effect.

David Ringstrom

August 6, 2018 

So striking is the change that it calls market gains into question, says a new report by the American Accounting Association.

August 6, 2018 

Good stories will help you sell — whether your product is a gadget, an idea or a professional service. Why? As human beings, our brains process information better when it comes in the form of a story, whether auditory or visual. We are literally hard ...

August 6, 2018 

Financial leaders continue breaking the mold and expanding their influence throughout their organizations. In a Robert Half Management Resources survey, finance executives most frequently reported their roles have grown over the past three years to include more human resources (39 percent) and information technology (28 percent) efforts. Finance leaders were asked, “In which one of...…

August 6, 2018 

Succeeding in your employee retention efforts requires you to think about things from the team's point of view. All employees are different, of course, and each has unique desires and goals. But it's a safe bet to assume that all of them want to know ...

August 6, 2018 

When it comes to complex sales tax compliance issues, your clients likely want no part of dealing with the details and making tough decisions. After all, that’s where you come in – the trusted advisor with the knowledge and expertise to provide ...

August 6, 2018 

Accountant Cindy Laporta testified that Gates had sent her backdated documents to reduce Manafort’s tax liability in support of the existence of such loans. In one instance, Laporta says that Manafort leaned on her to help when his bookkeeper wouldn’t.

August 6, 2018 

Cannabis is a very close knit community where everyone seems to know everyone. Breaking into the industry is not as easy as you may think. First of all you have to have some sort of angle. For instance, mine is that I have found a way around IRC §280e ...

Craig Smalley

August 5, 2018 

The certified public accounting firms of CJBS, LLC and Oehrlein & Oehrlein, PC have announced that, effective August 1, 2018, Oehrlein & Oehrlein, PC has joined CJBS, LLC. “Our firm’s commitment remains to serve our clients to the best possible degree,” said Jeff Stuart, CPA, Managing Member of CJBS. “This further enhances our ability to meet the...…

August 5, 2018 

Wells Fargo & Co. foreclosed on 400 homeowners after improperly denying them loan modifications that could have allowed them to stay in their homes, the bank said in a regulatory filing Friday.

August 3, 2018 

If the Treasury proposal goes through, the taxable gain would be similarly adjusted for inflation occurring during the time you owned the asset. Going back to our example, if the initial $250,000 cost of the home was adjusted to $350,000 for inflation ...