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July 6, 2018 

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 

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 

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 

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 

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 

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 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 

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 

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 

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 ...

July 3, 2018 

Growing up I was taught by my parents to get a job and keep a job. Period. It was ingrained in me that once I graduated college, I needed to land at a good company and stay there. The big reward would be retirement at 40 years with a fancy company pen ...

July 3, 2018 

The large national accounting firm WithumSmith+Brown has announced the promotion of three senior managers to the position of partner. Ryan Babiak, Joseph Cassano and Shawn P. Gillon are the newest partners to join the firm’s growing corporate leadership team, effective July 1, 2018. New partner bios can be viewed here. “Ryan, Joe and Shawn represent...…