Taxes January 26, 2026
Welcome to Tax Season 2026
The IRS today opened the 2026 tax filing season and began accepting and processing federal individual income tax returns for tax year 2025.
November 20, 2017
November 2017 Firm Management Channel
Accounting Firm Cybersecurity: Training Your Staff and Protecting Your Business By Christina Wiseman, Thomson Reuters From the Thomson Reuters blog. It probably won’t surprise you to hear that tax identity theft is on the rise. In response to this increase in tax-related ID theft, last year the IRS rolled out new security requirements that recommended...…
November 20, 2017
November 2017 Payroll Channel
The IRS has announced the 2018 cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) with respect to retirement plan limits. Many limits, which are adjusted by reference to Code Sec. 415(d), are changed for 2018 since the increase in the cost-of-living index met the ...
November 20, 2017
5 Must-Have Workplace Policies
By implementing or updating as needed, and consistently enforcing five (5) practical and well-known workplace policies, most employers can dramatically decrease the potential that a workplace decision involving an employee will result in ...
November 20, 2017
Valuation of a Cannabis Business
The Internal Revenue Code is so vast, and the laws surrounding cannabis are so complicated, that you have to stay up to date on the pulse of the community. My license is a Federal License and I have about 75 cannabis clients all over the country.
November 20, 2017
5 Hiring and Salary Trends for 2018
Demand for accounting professionals remains high, while unemployment for accountants and auditors remains low, below the national average. This is putting pressure on and intensifying hiring competition for accounting firms.
November 20, 2017
Phases of Change
Change evokes many emotions: fear, curiosity, exhaustion, loyalty, paranoia, optimism, rage, and revelation, to name a few. Unfortunately, management often overlooks or underestimates the emotional impact of changes such as mergers, process ...
November 20, 2017
Credit for the Past, Capital for the Future
Intuit introduces a new lending solution, QuickBooks Capital, to help small business owners grow their businesses
November 20, 2017
Is the Password Dying?
It’s not hard to see why people don’t like passwords. We share a lot of sensitive personal information with companies, including Social Security numbers, health records, and bank account and credit card numbers. Even password managers don’t eliminate ...
November 20, 2017
Free Online CPE Conference Dec. 7 – Earn 1-10 Hours of CPE in One Day
Thurs. Dec 7 - Tune in for an hour or two, or settle in and spend the entire day with us. Wear your pajamas if you like – we won’t judge. Starting at 9 a.m. Eastern time and for the next 10 hours you can collect up to 10 CPE credits, we’ll ...
November 17, 2017
November 2017 Tax Channel
All in an effort to minimize filing fraudsters, the IRS has accelerated major information form filing. And to drive home their emphasis, the IRS has drastically increased preparer penalties.
November 16, 2017
Technology Tools for Productivity
New technology tools are frequently showcased first at the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in Las Vegas every January. While many innovative products have been initially introduced during CES, there have been a number of useful hardware and software ...
November 16, 2017
A Growth Culture Requires a Solid Foundation of Client Retention
Many firms today are in the midst of “growth initiatives.” This, in its most basic of definitions, refers to trying to grow a firm from its current size to a larger size through increased focus and training on business development activities.