Accounting August 4, 2026
Nominations Open for Innovation Awards and 40 Under 40 Awards
Nominations are currently being accepted for CPA Practice Advisor's 40 Under 40, 20 Under 40, and Tax & Accounting Tech Innovation Awards.
March 13, 2018
Busy Season Opportunities
One of the challenges many CPA firms face today is trying to figure out how to handle digital disruption and find new, valuable ways to work with clients. Let’s break that sentence down into its two parts. First, digital disruption; what is it?
March 13, 2018
Avoiding the “Spilled Milk” Approach to Spreadsheet Design
Have you ever had one of those days, where everything seems to be harder to accomplish than it should be? Let's say that you're cleaning up a spill on your kitchen floor, one that seems to spread ever further, despite your efforts to contain it.
March 13, 2018
Salaries on the Rise According to New Study
This is great news for workers, but it puts pressure on employers, many of whom are finding that aligning pay with the overall market is no longer enough to attract top talent.
March 12, 2018
The Future of the Online Sales Tax – Part 3
Accountants are being pulled in to the trend of the online marketplace. The ease offered by online ecommerce platforms means even small clients can suddenly be mired in complexities of multistate tax rules from their very first sale.
March 12, 2018
The Future of the Online Sales Tax – Part 2
Accountants are being pulled in to the trend of the online marketplace. The ease offered by online ecommerce platforms means even small clients can suddenly be mired in complexities of multistate tax rules from their very first sale.
March 12, 2018
The Future of the Online Sales Tax – Part 1
Accountants are being pulled in to the trend of the online marketplace. The ease offered by online ecommerce platforms means even small clients can suddenly be mired in complexities of multistate tax rules from their very first sale.
March 12, 2018
Taxation and Initial Coin Offerings
Time and time again, I talk to companies that are in the middle of an ICO, and the way they set up their companies, are crazy. I have an appointment next week with an ICO company, that has set up a company in the Cayman Islands, which has no tax.
March 11, 2018
Congress May Consider Remote Sales Tax Law Before Supreme Court Case
The explosion of ecommerce has exacerbated an issue that’s long rankled many states: their inability to tax out-of-state businesses making sales within their borders. States have challenged this physical presence limitation numerous times but the ...
March 8, 2018
Is IRC §280E a Tax or a Penalty?
There was an interesting appeals case, that turned into a Writ of Certirori[1]. Green Solutions Retail, Inc. v. United States, started in US Tax Court. Green Solutions is a Colorado cannabis dispensary, that had its 2013, and 2014 tax returns audited ...
March 7, 2018
Businesses Not Assessing Risks of Adopting Emerging Technologies
Nearly half (47 percent) of the 200 senior IT risk management executives surveyed whose companies have adopted mobile applications and devices have not included them in recent IT risk assessments. The findings for other emerging technologies are ...
March 6, 2018
Captive Insurance
A captive insurer is generally defined as an insurance company that is wholly owned and controlled by its insureds; its primary purpose is to insure the risks of its owners, and its insureds benefit from the captive insurer’s underwriting profits.
March 1, 2018
March Madness Brings Mayhem to the Workplace
Employees are mad about sporting events like March Madness, suggests a new survey from staffing firm OfficeTeam. Professionals said they spend an average of 25.5 minutes per day on sports-related activities in the office during the college basketball playoffs. With the tournament spread across 15 workdays, that’s the equivalent of six hours per employee. View...…