Advisory April 24, 2026
5 M&A Signals CPAs Should Be Watching for Their Clients in 2026
The choppiness of the M&A market is an opening, not an obstacle. Use it to build a stronger advisory foundation with the clients who need it most.
November 1, 2017
Wolters Kluwer Offers New Live Tax Conference Series
The new, eight-hour federal tax update webinar series focuses half a day on the latest developments in individual taxation and half a day on the things tax professionals must know to complete partnership, S corp, and C corp returns for 2017.
November 1, 2017
Do Investors Benefit from Corporate Audit Committees?
Now a study in the American Accounting Association journal The Accounting Review assesses the 18-year-old SEC rule (which was largely integrated into the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002), and questions whether investors have benefited from it at all.
October 31, 2017
More than Half of Small Businesses Have Suffered Some Form of Cyber Attack or Breach
One in three victims spent at least $50,000 to recover from a cyber attack, yet rebuilding reputation and customer trust can take more than a year.
October 31, 2017
New Cryptocurrency Accounting and Audit Platform Launched
Verady has been working closely with Aprio over the past several years to assist with auditing one of the world's largest cryptocurrency payment processing companies. Today, Verady officially launched the platform that made all of this possible, VeraNet.
October 31, 2017
Holiday Bonuses to Increase 66%, But Fewer Firms Are Offering Them
Holiday bonuses for accounting and finance professionals are going up, but fewer professionals are getting them. That's according to the results of the annual Holiday Bonus and Hiring Survey from staffing firm Accounting Principals.
October 31, 2017
The Top 10 Nastiest Ransomware Attacks of 2017
According to the company's threat research team, NotPetya was the most destructive ransomware of 2017, followed closely by WannaCry and Locky. The data surveyed includes all devices running windows operating systems that were infected with ransomware ...
October 31, 2017
Survey Shows More U.S. Businesses Are Reporting Profits and Increased Hiring
Demand for financing is down across the board among all size businesses. Financing for planned growth or expansion, including acquisitions not yet realized was down from 66 percent in Q2 2017 to 62 percent in Q3 2017.
October 30, 2017
Printable IRS Form 4868 – Income Tax Extension – Tax Year 2017 (For Filing in 2018 Tax Season)
Printable 2107 IRS Form 4868. For filing by April 17, 2018. A taxpayer can file this form to request an automatic 6-month extension of time to file a U.S. individual income tax return. This document will be available soon.
October 30, 2017
Printable IRS Form 1040-EZ for Tax Year 2017 – For 2018 Income Tax Filing Season
This IRS Form 1040-EZ is for reporting income received from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 2017, which the taxpayer should file by April 17, 2018. Users can also file an extension (Form 4868). This document will be available soon.
October 30, 2017
Corporate R&D Spending Hits Record High
Annual worldwide corporate R&D spending broke through $700bn in annual investment, according to an annual analysis of R&D spending across 1000 global public companies by PwC’s Strategy&. It shows corporate R&D spending increased a steady 3% in the past year, bouncing back from less than 1% increase previously. However, in a global survey with 562...…
October 30, 2017
Intuit to Acquire Exactor
Intuit plans to integrate this feature into QuickBooks Online making it easy for its retail customers to accurately track and file sales tax returns on-time, every time.
October 30, 2017
Are Your Workers Bored? Survey Shows Workplace Boredom Hits 10 Hours Per Week
If you've ever had a case of the blahs at work, you're not alone. According to a new survey from staffing firm OfficeTeam, professionals admit they're bored in the office an average of 10.5 hours per week. That's more than a full day a week, or the ...