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January 15, 2016 

A new partnership between accounting and business management software provider Sage and small business cloud computing hosting provider Cloud9 Real Time lets accountants connect with their clients’ data in QuickBooks desktop in a hosted environment. Sage View empowers accountants to track client performance, accessing key client data from multiple accounting solutions in one place. Sage View...…

January 14, 2016 

Workers can also expect to see higher starting salaries, more teens in internships, more women and minorities in leadership, and more opportunities to move from low-skill to high-skill jobs, among other trends.

January 14, 2016 

Playing the lottery is a form of gambling. As a result, the usual federal tax rules apply to income and losses resulting from gambling activities. Generally, you can only deduct your losses from wagering up to the annual amount of your income from ...

January 14, 2016 

Since our readers are mostly tax professionals and accountants, what two pieces of advice would you give to a client or family member first, if they had the winning numbers on tonight's Powerball jackpot?

January 14, 2016 

It’s the start of another year and resolutions abound. While laying off the cookies and hitting the gym top nearly everyone’s list, what about making a resolution to transform your firm’s identity by providing advisory and consulting-based services to ...

Jon Baron

January 13, 2016 

Various roles of the Advisory Board include assisting TIAG’s management in reviewing prospective new members, offering feedback for the planning of international conferences and providing valuable guidance on future plans and initiatives.

January 13, 2016 

The merger increases BeachFleischman's Phoenix employee count to 29 and its firm-wide employee count to 148 client service and administrative professionals, including 22 shareholders and 70 CPAs.

January 12, 2016 

How do you know if someone has filed a tax return using your Social Security number? And what do you do then? This is happening more and more—the latest General Accounting Office (GAO) report says that IRS paid out over $5.8 billion in fraudulent returns.

January 12, 2016 

Small business owners face numerous everyday challenges, and they usually conquer them with their entrepreneurial strength. Unfortunately, keeping the books on their growing business is not a skill someone can simply persevere through and get it right.

January 12, 2016 

The award underscores the commitment of the AICPA and CIMA to elevating management accounting around the world. The organizations partnered to launch the CGMA designation in 2012 to help people and businesses succeed by producing and recognizing ...

January 12, 2016 

Huddleston is currently an Executive Director in Ernst & Young’s National Indirect Tax group. Prior to joining the firm in August, 2015, he served as the Executive Director of the Multistate Tax Commission for a decade. His previous positions ...

January 12, 2016 

  The American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) has submitted comments to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) about the IRS’s new policy of issuing estate tax closing letters only upon a separate request four months after filing the estate tax return.  The IRS announced changes related to the issuance of estate tax closing letters on the...…