Accounting

April 12, 2021 

AICPA News is a round-up of recent announcements from the Association.

Mary Girsch-Bock

April 12, 2021 

The survey reveals that many CFOs plan to cut travel and real estate expenses in the coming year and beyond. Of the 250 respondents surveyed in February 2021, 31% plan to minimize real estate and facilities expenses over the next year, while ...

April 12, 2021 

At the same time, most also agree that the small business economy is far from out of the woods yet, especially as COVID case counts increase in many areas and skyrocketing costs of supplies fuel worries about inflation.

April 9, 2021 

Managing debtors and the overall assessment of customer payment behaviors has never been as critical as it is in today’s economic climate. Businesses need to make decisions based on accurate, real-time intelligence. BlackLine AR Intelligence takes ...

April 9, 2021 

The Excel Awards were established in 1984 by the Illinois CPA Society Board of Directors to recognize new CPAs and CPA candidates for outstanding performance on the Uniform CPA Exam in Illinois. Honorees must achieve a total average score of 90 or ...

April 9, 2021 

In this first part of a two-episode podcast, we take a look at the remarkable accomplishments of Black CPAs in the 20th century, featuring the testimony of two CPAs who witnessed Black CPA history firsthand: Ruth Harris (#85), the first Black female ...

April 9, 2021 

Against the backdrop of a worldwide pandemic and a decline in overall securities class action filing activity, the number of securities class action filings involving accounting allegations increased in 2020 for the third consecutive year, according to...

April 9, 2021 

The CPA Endowment Fund of Illinois, the charitable partner of the Illinois CPA Society, is proud to announce its Board of Directors to serve April 1, 2021 to March 31, 2022.

April 9, 2021 

One of the business stories coming out of the last year is the dramatic growth of electronic supplier payments. In Q4, Nacha, National Automated Clearinghouse, reported a 15 percent year-over-year increase in B2B ACH payments.

April 9, 2021 

Is your firm one of the hundreds waiting for the issuance of a Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) inspection report? You are in good company as more firms join this group weekly. Since peaking at 344 inspection reports in 2011, the PCAOB’s pace for issuing inspection reports slowed to a trickle of only 46...…

April 9, 2021 

While nonprofits are navigating 2021 resiliency for their missions, internally, nonprofits and organizations are also preparing the reporting trail for a smooth PPP Loan Forgiveness process.

April 9, 2021 

Led by Managing Partners Chris Kirkland and Kevin Kelly, Legacy Capital Advisors serves a diverse client base ranging from retirees or soon-to-retire clients for whom income generation is key, to clients earlier in their investing cycle who often are ...