Technology February 9, 2026
Botkeeper is Closing Its Doors
In a statement posted on the Botkeeper website over the weekend, Enrico Palmerino wrote that the automated bookkeeping platform he founded in 2015 is shutting down.
July 9, 2018
Home Sellers on West Coast See Biggest Gains
Most sellers – 71 percent – are simultaneously trying to buy their next home. In 25 of the markets analyzed, the profits sellers made are not enough for a 20 percent down payment on the median home in that same area. Sellers only made enough to ...
July 9, 2018
Are You Ready to BYOB? Be Your Own Boss
If you’re not confident about your ability to come up with marketing ideas, you might want to outsource to a marketing expert. Consider using online marketing, social media, in-person and online networking, and community-based marketing to help you ...
July 6, 2018
PKF International Welcomes New Member Firm in Canada
PKF International has announced the addition of PFC Accounting in Calgary and Red Deer, Canada as the newest independent member firm in North America. PKF is a global network of legally independent firms bound together by a shared commitment to ...
July 6, 2018
11 Warning Signs of Workers’ Compensation Insurance Fraud
Workplace injury and illness risks differ depending on the company and industry. While accounting firms aren’t usually exposed to extreme workplace hazards, common employee injuries such as slips, trips and falls, back injuries and repetitive stress ...
July 6, 2018
How Older Taxpayers Can Benefit from Charitable Contributions without Itemizing Taxes
Charitable contributions may still be claimed as an itemized deduction, but the TCJA restricted itemized deductions for state and local income and property tax, tinkered with the deduction for residence interest (by reducing the dollar limit on ...
July 6, 2018
NY Firm Escapes the Office After Tax Season
One Long Island-based tax and business advisory firm discovered a unique and fun way to show appreciation for their employees and celebrate the end of a busy tax season. For the second consecutive year, accounting and business advisory firm Margolin ...
July 5, 2018
A.I., Machine Learning, Cognitive Computing As Profession’s Top Technology Hard Trends For 2018 – Part 2
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and cognitive computing in audit and tax are the top trends that will impact the accounting and finance world over the next three years, according to research conducted by the Maryland Association of CPAs, ...
July 5, 2018
How One Accounting Firm Created An Industry Niche
Michael Bohinc is a CPA, a baseball nut and the son of a plumber, so he combined these parts of his background as he developed an industry niche focused on plumbing and HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning) contractors.
July 3, 2018
The New Postcard Size IRS Form 1040 for 2019
The Internal Revenue Service has released a prototype of the new Form 1040 that hundreds of millions of Americans use to file their annual taxes. The new "postcard sized" form will be used for the 2018 income tax year, which most Americans will file ...
July 3, 2018
4 Tips to Reduce Risk in Retirement Plans
Many people are worried about their retirement from a money perspective. According to a survey by Transamerica, most workers think the financial challenges they'll face in retirement will be harder to overcome than those that prior generations faced.
July 3, 2018
Finance Professionals Increasingly Challenged by Digital Transformation
Over half of the financial executives surveyed in the United States (59 percent) and Canada (52 percent) said they will maintain their current staffing levels due to digital transformation. Seventeen percent of U.S. respondents and 22 percent of ...
July 3, 2018
Deep Dive Analysis of the Supreme Court’s Sales Tax Ruling
The Court explicitly rejected the requirement that a remote seller must have a physical presence in a state before that state or its localities could require sales tax collection. A majority of the Court swept aside the rules that guided this area of ...