Accounting August 4, 2026
Nominations Open for Innovation Awards and 40 Under 40 Awards
Nominations are currently being accepted for CPA Practice Advisor's 40 Under 40, 20 Under 40, and Tax & Accounting Tech Innovation Awards.
February 8, 2018
Are CFOs and Auditors Too Cozy?
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
AICPA Urges IRS to Provide Prospective Relief to Certain CFC Information Return Filers
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
Estate Planning and the 2018 Tax Reform Law
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.
February 7, 2018
Digital Controllership: Finance & Accounting Pros Turning to Robotic Process Automation
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
721 Sales Tax Rates Changed in 2017
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
TaxSlayer and Kabbage Partner for Small Business Lending
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 DC Keynote Features Gartner Analyst
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
Tax Reform and U.S. Expats: The Good, the Bad and the Same
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
The 2018 Payment Technology Checklist: 5 Trends to Watch
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 ...
February 7, 2018
GASB Requests Public Input on Revenue and Expense Recognition
The ITC, Revenue and Expense Recognition, discusses two models: an exchange/nonexchange model, and a performance obligation/no performance obligation model.
February 7, 2018
Changes Coming to Use Tax Reporting
If sales tax is not charged at the time of sale, states expect use tax to be paid to the state in which the good is used or consumed. However, given the complexities of the many different variations of local and state tax laws, it’s no surprise that ...
February 7, 2018
401(k) Startup Helps Tackle Retirement Crisis
With an average customer satisfaction rating of 93%, Human Interest’s 10,000+ users have seen great success with the personal, education-focused 401(k) tools and services that encourage not only small businesses to offer this benefit to their employees...