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November 4, 2016 

The New York State Society of CPAs (NYSSCPA) in response to The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) invitation for feedback to new proposed financial accounting and reporting topics has offered detailed policy suggestions to the request.

November 4, 2016 

Falling into a pool, sleeping under a table, fighting with the boss and screaming like a werewolf – scenes from a rough weekend or a corporate event? Unfortunately, for those involved, it's the latter. A recent Robert Half survey of financial ...

November 4, 2016 

Twenty-five states, plus the District of Columbia, index their minimum wages to rise automatically with the cost of living. Four more states, also including the District of Columbia, will index minimum wage increases annually beginning in future years.

November 4, 2016 

The acquisitions mark a return to Connecticut for one of the nation’s largest and fastest growing accounting firms, which last maintained a practice in Hartford in 2010. The new practice will enhance and complement UHY’s current service offerings ...

November 4, 2016 

The subject line for the fraudulent email is “Security Awareness for Tax Professionals.” The “From” line is “Your e-Services Team.” It has both an IRS logo and an e-services logo that hyperlinks to a URL verified as a phishing site. The spoofing site ...

November 4, 2016 

A recent addition to the CCH® IntelliConnect® platform, CCH IntelliConnect Browser Search is a complimentary browser add-on that instantly sends search queries through Wolters Kluwer’s subscriber content, and displays the CCH IntelliConnect answers directly on the Google®, Bing® or Yahoo!® results page. No logging in and no more alternating between research tools! You’ll save time...…

November 4, 2016 

Melody Feniks, CPA, CGMA, has been named the 2016 Woman CPA of the Year by the American Woman’s Society of Certified Public Accountants (AWSCPA). This award recognizes an individual for outstanding contributions to the accounting profession.

November 3, 2016 

Many clients will be able to escape the clutches of the federal estate, with plenty of room to spare. But state death taxes are often a greater concern to middle-to-upper income taxpayers. More good news: A total of at least nine states are revising ...

November 3, 2016 

    Last month was the first annual CPA Practice Advisor “40 Under 40” ThinkTank Symposium. As an attendee and first-time 40 Under 40, I was excited to meet my fellow honorees for a guided discussion hosted by Rootworks in Indianapolis. It was a gathering reflective of the increasingly diverse nature of the profession. There...…

November 3, 2016 

As part of the most recent meeting of the IRS Security Summit, Intuit Inc. announced additional security measures for its consumer and professional tax software products. These measures build on safeguards enacted in prior years and reflect the ...

November 3, 2016 

Approximately 1,500 tax and accounting professionals were on hand at the company’s 36th annual event as Baron, the managing director of the Professional segment of Thomson Reuters Tax & Accounting business, laid out the case that far from being ...

November 3, 2016 

With massive changes and the continuing evolution of digital enviroments, as well as societal adoption of technologies, accounting firms need to accept and embrace that change, if they hope to be successful in the coming years.