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 7, 2018
IRS Interest Rates Increase for Q1 2019
Under the Internal Revenue Code, the rate of interest is determined on a quarterly basis. For taxpayers other than corporations, the overpayment and underpayment rate is the federal short-term rate plus 3 percentage points.
December 7, 2018
IRS Warns Tax Pros About Scams, Reminds Firms of Duty to Have Security Plan
The IRS also reminds all professional tax preparers that they are required by federal law to create and maintain a written data security plan. Sole practitioners are just as vulnerable to data theft as practitioners in large firms.
December 7, 2018
Trust and Business Insight are More Critical than Ever in the Digital Age, CPA.com CEO Says
Technology is transforming all major practice areas within the accounting profession, and CPAs will increasingly adopt a more strategic role in delivering trusted information and insights, the chief executive of CPA.com said.
December 7, 2018
KPMG Moves into Small Business Tax and Accounting Services with Spark
Big 4 accounting and business consulting firm KPMG LLP, is making a play for the small business tax and accounting services market with the launch of a new online system called KPMG Spark. The service is the result of the acquisition by KPMG of the ...
December 7, 2018
AICPA Awards $120,000 in Scholarships to Community College Transfer Students
The scholarship is given each year to exemplary students transferring from a two-year college to a four-year college or university to finish their accounting degrees. Twenty-four students will receive $5,000 each toward their tuition.
December 7, 2018
WICPA Announces New President & CEO
Hofstede has been with the WICPA for 26 years, having joined the organization as an accounting intern in 1992. Since then, she has held the positions of accounting assistant (1993-1995); accounting, legislative, foundation & technology ...
December 7, 2018
Accounting Students Win PwC Case Competition
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
Chargify Acquires ProRata
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
It’s Almost Tax Time: Last Minute Tax Tips to Get the Most from Tax Law
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
Top Workplace Trends for 2019
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
AICPA’s Auditing Standards Board Addresses Auditor Reporting on ERISA Plan Financial Statements
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
Bill.com Selects Comdata as Virtual Credit Card Provider
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 ...