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June 25, 2018 

To lay the foundation for its growth plan, WBWS has hired professionals across multiple disciplines in recent months, such as law, tax, accounting and marketing, to increase its expertise and capacity to provide holistic wealth management services, as ...

June 25, 2018 

Revenue recognition brought to light a diversity of practice in the way that nonprofit organizations and funders classified grants and contracts from federal, state and local governments and other funding sources such as foundations in the financial ...

June 25, 2018 

As part of this collaboration, the AICPA will be able to direct CPAs whose clients are confronting federal regulatory compliance or enforcement challenges to designated SBA Office of the National Ombudsman (ONO) contacts for assistance in resolving ...

June 25, 2018 

In today’s real-time digital world, businesses need to adapt to dynamic opportunities quickly. Finance teams in particular are under pressure to reduce their operating costs, while acting as a strategic partner to various parts of the business. The expectations are clear – reduce the effort spent on manual, routine tasks and focus on new insights...…

June 25, 2018 

How does your firm exchange important financial documents with clients? Do clients send earnings statements and tax documents by regular mail, or perhaps as email attachments? In the event of an audit, how are PBC (prepared by client) supporting documents delivered? Finally, how does your firm exchange documents requiring client signature? Tax and financial documents...…

June 25, 2018 

The first is that, when nonprofessional investors are presented with either of two press releases announcing earnings results for the same company, one containing optimistic forward-looking statements the other not, the former elicits a markedly ...

June 25, 2018 

In a new case harkening back to the days of F.D.R., the U.S. Supreme Court decided by a narrow 5-4 vote that stock options paid to employees who were “working on the railroad” do not constitute taxable compensation (Wisconsin Central Ltd, v. U.S. ...

Ken Berry, JD

June 25, 2018 

As accounting firms look to grow their firms and expand their client accounting services (CAS) practices, they are finding automated payment solutions like Bill.com an ideal entry point for clients to easily outsource more of their accounting needs.

June 22, 2018 

The Supreme Court has ruled the physical presence standard it upheld in Quill Corp. v. North Dakota (1992) is “unsound and incorrect.” That means states are allowed to tax businesses that don’t have a physical presence in the state.

June 22, 2018 

On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court announced its decision in the South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc. case to overturn the 1992 Quill, Corp. v. North Dakota nexus holding that a company must have a physical presence in a state before it can be held liable ...

June 22, 2018 

Lewis Sharpstone, CPA, will focus on the "P" (for "public") in the professional designation "certified public accountant" during his 2018-19 tenure as chair of the California Society of CPAs (CalCPA.org), the nation's largest state CPA society.

June 22, 2018 

Thomson Reuters is marking the 250th firm to benefit from Practice Forward, an innovative program that guides firms through a business model transformational roadmap, culminating in a client service approach that is proactive, harnesses the unique ...