Accounting February 28, 2026
Voting Opens for 2026 Readers’ Choice Awards!
Voting in the 2026 Readers’ Choice Awards is now open. Readers can vote for the programs, hardware, services, and other technologies they use and trust.
December 11, 2018
2019 Pre-Tax Season Checklist for Tax Professionals
Planning for the upcoming tax season is an important step in managing the professional liability risk associated with providing tax services. The following pre-tax season checklist provides several suggestions firms should consider in planning for ...
December 11, 2018
New AICPA Scholarship for CPAs Pursuing Ph.D
The $10,000 scholarship will be awarded annually to five outstanding accounting Ph.D candidates who demonstrate significant potential to become mentors for the next generation of CPAs.
December 11, 2018
Accounting Firm Sikich Acquires Knutte & Associates
The accounting and professional services firm Sikich has acquired the practice of Knutte & Associates, a Darien, Illinois-based audit, accounting and tax firm.
December 11, 2018
Men More Likely to Commit Expense Fraud than Women
The large disparity may just come down to gender differences in risk-taking behavior. In a 2004 experiment, researchers designed a computer game involving gambling and risk and found significant differences in the way men and women perceived ...
December 10, 2018
Do Public Companies Manipulate Cash Flow Benchmark to Boost Credit Ratings?
In the early period of performance pricing, creditworthiness (and, therefore, rates) were determined principally by accounting metrics, most commonly the ratio of company debt to earnings, with grids specifying higher rates as a firm’s ratio increased ...
December 10, 2018
Why and How: Emerging Technology Strategies
We’ve been through a year together learning about Emerging Technologies. While there will always be new technology, we are not likely to go through a period of time again anytime soon where the algorithms are changing so rapidly and the new ...
December 10, 2018
Which Industries Have the Most Expense Report Fraud?
Professional services organizations typically have some of the most demanding requirements for employee expense management. Not only can employees in professional services bill their employers, they also bill their clients for certain expenses ...
December 7, 2018
Employers Warned About W2 and Tax Identity Theft Scams
An email may start with a simple, “Hey, you in today?” and, by the end of the exchange, all of an organization’s Forms W-2 for their employees may be in the hands of cybercriminals. This puts workers at risk for tax-related identity theft.
December 7, 2018
Deficit, Tariffs and Interest Rates Worry U.S. Business Executives
Some 57 percent of survey respondents expressed optimism about the U.S. economy over the next 12 months, down 12 percentage points from last quarter and a steep decline from the post-recession high of 79 percent set at the start of the year.
December 7, 2018
IRS Gives Guidance on New Tax Benefit for Stock Options
The Internal Revenue Service has issued Notice 2018-97 offering guidance on a recent tax law change that allows qualified employees of privately-held corporations to defer paying income tax, for up to five years, on the value of qualified ...
December 7, 2018
Tax Reform Myths and Facts for 2019: What the TCJA Really Means for Taxpayers
There is a plethora of information (and more pointedly, misinformation) about the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) that taxpayers are taking as gospel and applying to their 2018 tax situation.
December 7, 2018
AICPA and NASBA Renew Mutual Recognition Agreement with Australia and New Zealand
The American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) and the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) have renewed a Mutual Recognition Agreement (MRA) with the Chartered Accountants of Australia and New Zealand (CA ANZ).