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.
March 4, 2021
Intuit Adds E-Signature Functions to QuickBooks
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
SafeSend Returns
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...
March 3, 2021
Should Firms Require Staff to Get the Covid Vaccine?
CPA firms can handle the COVID-19 vaccine in a few different ways – from issuing a mandate for employees to get vaccinated to simply encouraging or incentivizing it. While there are benefits to a firm supporting the vaccination, there are also risks ...
March 3, 2021
The Covid-19 Pandemic and Worker Mental Illness
Employers must show empathy and make available professional support and resources for employees suffering from mental health issues. The goal is to help them address their condition and hopefully resume contributing to their own success and...
March 3, 2021
Venture Capital Firms Focus on Greater Diversity and Equity
Amid heightened efforts to promote increasingly diverse, equitable and inclusive workforces over the past year, venture capital (VC) firms are taking note of their social and corporate responsibility in achieving greater gender, racial and ethnic ...
March 3, 2021
Stay 3 Steps Ahead: Actionable Tips to Help You Prepare for a Turbulent Tax Season
As you gear up for tax season, it’s also a good idea to assess your strengths and weaknesses organizationally. This year, perhaps to a greater degree than ever, I predict the demand for strong, experienced finance leaders who can navigate the C-suite...
March 3, 2021 Sponsored
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March 2, 2021
IRS Offers Guidance for Employee Retention Credit and PPP Eligibility Rules
For 2020, the employee retention credit can be claimed by employers who paid qualified wages after March 12, 2020, and before January 1, 2021, and who experienced a full or partial suspension of their operations or a significant decline in gross receipts.
March 2, 2021
The Future of Finance Is Leaving Paper Checks in the Past
Given the choice, accounts payable professionals would make the move to digital payment solutions. And those who already have are quite pleased with the decision. Around three-quarters report being “very” or “extremely satisfied” with digital wallets...
March 2, 2021
IRS Interest Rates Stay Same for Q2 2021
The Internal Revenue Service says that interest rates will remain the same for the calendar quarter beginning April 1, 2021. The rates will be: 3% for overpayments [2%t in the case of a corporation]; 0.5%for the portion of a corporate overpayment exceeding $10,000; 3% for underpayments; and 5% for large corporate underpayments. Under the Internal...…
March 2, 2021
47% of SMBs Optimistic About Biden Administration PPP Changes
Based on this week’s Alignable PPP Pulse Poll of 8,705 small business owners, 47% indicated their support for President Biden’s proposed changes to the 2021 PPP, which better reflect the needs of solopreneurs and other SMBs with fewer than 20 employees.
March 2, 2021
AICPA Says PPP Needs to Be Extended
The American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) has called upon Congress to extend the Paycheck Protection Program’s (PPP) March 31 loan application deadline. AICPA believes that Congress can still support small businesses and non-profits by ...