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July 21, 2016 

The study, already underway and in the preliminary reporting stages, is examining the links between the relative success of CPA firms and their approach to professional development.

July 21, 2016 

Technical debt is now a common term in the software development industry. Companies spend money assessing, controlling and “paying down” their technical debt in order to keep their products agile enough to compete in an environment where slow to market or

Jim Boomer

July 21, 2016 

Award Recognizes Women Making the Greatest Impact on the Tax and Accounting Field.

July 20, 2016 

More than ever, managing partners at Maryland CPA firms say they need someone to scan the horizon for them — to identify future trends before they happen, to monitor and affect change on legislation and regulations, to train their people and help them ...

July 20, 2016 

After 15 years of polling, focus groups and town meetings, the IOP poll asked members of America's Millennial generation to rate the issues and topics most important to them personally when electing the next president. Results from this poll show that ...

July 20, 2016 

Small businesses are increasingly looking for simple and easy ways to connect their accounting software to apps that help them run their business more efficiently, with a 60% increase in the number of businesses using apps in Xero’s ecosystem.

July 20, 2016 

Under the ACA, employers are generally required to provide at least minimal essential coverage to full-time employees. Beginning in 2016, the employer mandate applies to employers with 50 or more employers. (Smaller businesses are exempt.)

July 20, 2016 

The LITC program is a federal grant program administered by the Office of the Taxpayer Advocate at the IRS, led by National Taxpayer Advocate Nina E. Olson. Although LITCs receive partial funding from the IRS, LITCs, their employees and their ...

July 20, 2016 

The Financial Executives Research Foundation (FERF), the non-profit research affiliate of FEI, has elected a new slate of executive officers for the fiscal year, effective July 1.

July 20, 2016 

A featured speaker at Digital CPA will be business strategist Daniel Burrus, who champions the concept of the “Anticipatory Organization,” one that can analyze long-term trends and move quickly to take advantage of opportunities that come from change.

July 19, 2016 

ARAG, a group of practitioners and academics formed in collaboration with the American Accounting Association, will review and approve academic research proposals that address questions with a nexus to the following topics.

July 19, 2016 

When you maintain the status quo at your firm long enough to become detrimental to your success, the result isn’t typically an obvious or immediate catastrophe waiting to strike at some ill-timed moment—as when you neglect routine maintenance on your ...