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AICPA News is a round-up of recent announcements from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

6108 The Power of PCPS in 2010 In 2010, the power of the AICPA Private Companies Practice Section (PCPS) was once again put to work to help make thousands of practitioners more successful. CPAs and accounting firms turn to PCPS for the strategic resources and information they need to better manage their practices, tackle their […]

  It’s late January, which, for many accounting professionals (particularly those in public practice), means you’re ramping up for the busiest time of the year — 1040 season. Although not all firms focus equally on individual tax compliance services, there are few who are immune to this annual uptick in workload, since even those with […]

Company Overview CPA2Biz is a subsidiary of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), the national professional association of CPAs. CPA2Biz is the exclusive marketing arm for AICPA products and services — including publications, webcasts, conferences, continuing professional education and member benefits programs — for CPAs and financial professionals nationwide. www.cpa2biz.com is the leading […]

RIVIO, a service of CPA.com in partnership with Confirmation.com, is an online financial document clearinghouse that enables private businesses to exchange key financial information with their investors and lenders as well as retrieve information from their CPA firm, ensuring data is submitted from an authenticated source. CPA.com and Confirmation.com are defining the new standard in […]

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.

The American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) and NAF today announced the launch of a high school program aimed at increasing and diversifying the pipeline of talented students who enter the accounting profession. The announcement was made at ...

Miller, 34, is an information assurance associate with Macpage LLC, which has offices in Maine and Massachusetts. She is a summa cum laude graduate of the University of Massachusetts-Lowell in Lowell, Mass., and was licensed as a CPA in the state of ...

A supermajority of AICPA members who voted supported the proposal, 86.5 percent to 13.5 percent, according to the independent tabulator Survey and Ballot Systems. CIMA members also overwhelmingly endorsed the proposal 89.7 percent to 10.3 percent ...

The recipients, all talented CPAs age 40 and under who hold the Certified Information Technology Professional (CITP) specialty credential, were announced at the AICPA's Practitioners Symposium and Tech+ Conference in Las Vegas.

The online clearinghouse was developed jointly by CPA.com and Confirmation.com, a company that offers a market-leading solution for electronic audit confirmations and is well known in both the accounting profession and the banking industry.

A panel of young members and students discuss the impact of diversity and inclusion on the profession. For more young CPA resources, visit http://www.aicpa.org/InterestAreas/YoungCPANetwork/Pages/YoungCPANetwork.aspx

The next version of the exam is based on a practice analysis, an extensive research project overseen by the AICPA’s Board of Examiners, which included input from key stakeholders across the accounting profession.

Over half (55 percent) of the young adults surveyed admitted that they were impulse shoppers, defined as making an unplanned purchase of $30 or more on a daily or weekly basis. Impulse buyers are more likely than those who never or rarely make an ...

The AICPA has entered into similar content-sharing agreements in the past year with professional accounting organizations in Colombia and Lebanon.

Five outstanding students have been named recipients of the 2015-2016 AICPA John L. Carey Scholarship Award. The one-year scholarship award, part of the AICPA’s Legacy Scholars Program, is bestowed upon students from liberal arts and other ...