Accounting February 28, 2026
Voting Opens for 2026 Readers’ Choice Awards!
Voting in the 2026 Readers’ Choice Awards is now open. Readers can vote for the programs, hardware, services, and other technologies they use and trust.
October 29, 2015
What’s the Best Time to Start Drawing Social Security?
The federal government allows retirees to start drawing Social Security as early as age 62, a feature that more than 40 percent of Americans take advantage of as they gladly draw from the system they spent a lifetime paying into.
October 29, 2015
New Certify Mobile Instant Policy Check Helps Business Travelers Stay in Compliance
Staying in compliance can be challenging for business travelers, no matter how steadfast a company’s T&E policy may be or how well an employee has been trained. Certify Mobile Instant Policy Check is the easiest way to verify expenses against policy ...
October 28, 2015
How to Collect Tax Benefits for Business Bad Debts
From a business perspective, there’s practically nothing worse than providing goods or services to a customer or client and not getting paid. Or maybe you’ve made loans to vendors or suppliers that haven’t been repaid. It can take a long time to get ...
October 28, 2015
Avalara TrustFile Debuts on New Weebly App Center
Weebly, a global service that lets any merchant create a high quality website, is working with Avalara to bring sales tax automation solutions to aspiring, newly-established and fast-growing online merchants. With Weebly and Avalara TrustFile ...
October 28, 2015
AICPA Partners with NAF to Boost Talent and Diversity in Accounting Profession
The nationwide recognition program will teach students both soft skills – such as communication, time management, and leadership - as well as the technical accounting and finance skills that will encourage and prepare them to pursue an accounting ...
October 28, 2015
3 Things Entrepreneurs Must Avoid to Achieve Success
Being bold is a key to success, he says, but you can get so carried away that you ignore danger signs or don’t take care in your planning.
October 28, 2015
CPA.com Partners with Vertex SMB for Sales Tax Solutions
Businesses that sell online or operate in multiple states can find it daunting to stay compliant with ever-changing regulations from a host of jurisdictions and taxing authorities. Vertex SMB’s tax calculation and returns platform helps CPA firms and ...
October 28, 2015
Average Income Tax Preparation Fees Increased in 2015
The average cost of a professional income tax preparer to handle a "typical" 2014 tax return (the one filed by April 15, 2015) was $273 this year. This includes an itemized Form 1040 with Schedule A and a state tax return, according to the National ...
October 28, 2015
New BEPS Resource Center from Wolters Kluwer, Tax & Accounting US
These resources were developed in major part to prepare professionals who advise clients in complying with the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) BEPS Action Plans, which are set to begin in 2016. The BEPS solutions, which ...
October 27, 2015
Where Your Tax Money is Going in 2016
During the 2016 fiscal year, the government is working with a federal budget of 4.1 trillion dollars—a hefty chunk of change. If you’re curious about exactly how the government chooses to use your hard-earned taxpayer money and want to find out some ...
October 27, 2015
VersaPay Launches Newest Version of ARC Accounts Receivable Automation Platform
The enhancements introduced in this latest release reflect the experience and feedback of over 9,000 end customers that have signed up to use the platform, as well as VersaPay's strategy to continuously drive innovation and offer the best solution for ...
October 27, 2015
In-Person Banking Still Preferred by Many Consumers
The survey found that 84 percent of bank customers still visit their branches at least once a month, refuting the premise that bank branch demand is declining.