Accounting

April 14, 2020  Sponsored

Although the city’s administrative staff are considered essential government workers, city clerk Amber Hinton determined that most could work from home. Her office oversees operations of several departments, including financial, payroll, payables, ...

April 14, 2020 

The IRS, state tax agencies and the nation’s tax industry continue to see an upswing in data thefts from tax professionals as cybercriminals try to take advantage of COVID-19 and Economic Impact Payments to create new scams.

April 14, 2020 

The Illinois CPA Society (ICPAS)—one of the largest state CPA societies in the nation—is proud to announce the recipients of its prestigious 2020 outstanding leadership awards.

April 14, 2020 

Americans began 2020 with record levels of personal financial satisfaction. However, as COVID-19 spread across the country and businesses closed, more than 16 million Americans have filed for unemployment in the last three weeks alone.

April 14, 2020 

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. Honorees must achieve a total average score of 90 or above, complete ...

April 13, 2020 

While extremely low interest rates are generally assigned most of the responsibility for the debt explosion, regulatory factors have been implicated as well. Now research in a leading accounting journal newly identifies federal accounting regulations ...

April 13, 2020 

Avalara launches the Sales Tax Risk Assessment at a time when businesses, primarily online sellers, are facing added sales tax complexity. The South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc. ruling in June 2018 stated that given the power and prevalence of the ...

April 13, 2020 

Are your clients looking to expand their businesses to another state or states? If so, that’s a great indication of success and they’ll probably turn to you for financial guidance to help them make the move. However, they’re also likely to need your ...

Nellie Akalp

April 13, 2020 

AICPA News is a roundup of recent announcements from the association.

Mary Girsch-Bock

April 11, 2020 

Company preparing to accept applications for billions of dollars in requested PPP relief next week. 1 in 12 American employees is paid through QuickBooks Payroll

April 10, 2020 

To help millions of people, the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service today launched a new web tool allowing quick registration for Economic Impact Payments for those who don’t normally file a tax return.

April 10, 2020 

AP is one of the last bastions of paper processing in the enterprise, and it comes with challenges. According to the latest research from AFP, companies still make 42 percent of their payments by paper check. All those processes that are involved with ...