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February 8, 2018 

Two conferences have been added to the AICPA ENGAGE lineup this year – the EDGE Career Development Conference, designed for standout young CPAs, and the CPA Firm Management Association’s National Practice Management Conference – bringing the total ...

February 8, 2018 

Launched in September 2017 with corporate offices in Santa Barbara, CA., The W Source helps female professionals grow their businesses by establishing networking groups of 20-25 professionals in local areas and offering proprietary tools and ...

February 8, 2018 

The EY Americas Tax practice today launched EY Interact, the firm’s new program that provides real-time access and visibility to tax engagements. While collaboration portals exist, EY Interact gives clients one site to access all of their work products and engagement data, and to receive personalized alerts and secure document sharing across their EY tax...…

February 8, 2018 

In accounting, the term "familiarity threat" refers to the threat to auditor independence that arises when a CFO or other top executive of a company being audited was formerly employed by the accounting firm conducting the audit. In the years leading ...

February 8, 2018 

The AICPA explained in its letter that IRS Notice 2018-13 eliminated the requirement for certain United States shareholders of CFCs to file a Form 5471. The relief was a “welcome acknowledgement of the unnecessary burden otherwise imposed on many ...

February 7, 2018 

For most practitioners the estate tax hasn’t come into play for many years. Instead of eliminating the estate tax, the estate tax exemption has been raised to $11 million for an individual, and $22 million for a married couple that elects portability.

Craig Smalley

February 7, 2018 

Poll respondents report that the biggest benefits of implementing a digital controllership strategy include: improved talent resource allocation toward higher value, strategic work by reducing manual, repetitive work (40.5 percent); improved internal ...

February 7, 2018 

According to the annual year-end tax rate study issued by Vertex Inc., a tax technology provider, there were 721 total US sales tax rate changes in 2017, a substantial increase of 29.21 percent from the 558 changes that occurred in 2016.

February 7, 2018 

The collaboration offers qualified small business customers hassle-free access to lines of credit up to $250,000 from Kabbage, and exclusive tax resources, including tips, promotions and discounts from TaxSlayer.

February 7, 2018 

Avalara CRUSH will also include an expanded Developer Track, covering everything from the basics of calculating tax using AvaTax to building connectors for enterprise-level organizations. Avalara has added nearly double last year’s number of ...

February 7, 2018 

The new tax reform bill called, Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), is the first time in 30 years that the tax code has been fully transformed. While it is expected to ease tax filings and processing for Americans, the same can’t be said for American Expats.

February 7, 2018 

With a new year comes new resolutions, disruptors and trends. This will especially ring true in the payments space, which boasts one of the biggest growth markets in the world - fintech. Research estimates that global fintech solution usage is ...