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March 4, 2021 

The COVID-19 pandemic is causing many finance and accounting executives, including your clients, to rethink their budgets, implement cost-saving measures, and reinforce their budgeting and forecasting, with a focus on proactive planning. Proactive planning is the process of budgeting and re-forecasting based on real-time operational data and market dynamics. It involves visualizing the path the...…

March 4, 2021 

In a letter to the Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) called for the extension of the filing and payment deadline for the 2020 tax year until June 15, 2021.

March 4, 2021 

Following the submission of AICPA’s recommendations, the IRS released guidance on the ERC. However, the guidance failed to clarify whether wages paid to S corporation owners and their actively employed spouses qualify for the ERC if all other ...

March 4, 2021 

While the percentage of business executives who expressed optimism about the U.S. economy rose from 37 percent to 47 percent this quarter, that still means the majority remain pessimistic or neutral. More than three-quarters (76 percent) of survey ...

March 4, 2021 

Aligned with Xero’s strategic priority to grow the small business platform, the acquisition of Planday will help more small businesses save time, save money, deal with increasing compliance requirements, support more flexible forms of work, and look ...

March 4, 2021 

The survey comprised 18 questions or scenarios, including general questions about organization location, size, area of focus and questions about the COVID-19 crisis. BKD received responses from 319 organizations between September 23 and October 23, 2020.

March 4, 2021 

The proposed Statement would supersede the guidance issued by the GASB in Statement No. 16, Accounting for Compensated Absences, which was issued in 1992. The proposal is in keeping with the Board’s commitment to periodically reexamine its standards to...

March 4, 2021 

Transcepta’s Vice President of Corporate Strategy Shan Haq hosted a webinar, with Ardent Partners’ Vice President of Research Bob Cohen as a guest speaker, that broke down and discussed the significance of survey results in the recently ...

March 4, 2021 

Sal Visca has joined Vertex, Inc. as chief technology officer (CTO) effective immediately. He is responsible for leading the company’s technology strategy, software engineering and innovation roadmap to accelerate growth.Vertex is a global provider of tax technology solutions. Visca brings 30 years of technology and executive management expertise transforming and operating large-scale cloud software businesses....…

March 4, 2021 

Based on responses from recipients of the AICPA’s and CPA Practice Advisor’s 2020 Most Power Women in Accounting Awards, here are five things businesses can do to build a culture that provides greater gender equity in the workplace:

March 4, 2021 

Intuit has launched DocuSign eSignature Connector by QuickBooks to help small businesses digitally sign estimates directly from QuickBooks Online Advanced. In addition to saving time, customers can save an average of $36 per contract by reducing hard ...

March 3, 2021 

With SafeSend Returns, you have the power to redefine your firm’s entire process surrounding the “last mile” of tax preparation – assembly, delivery, and e-signing. In one fell swoop, you will banish the days of a harried, stressed-out staff scrambling...