Accounting August 4, 2026
Last Call for Innovation Award Nominations: Closes Sept. 8
Nominations are currently being accepted for CPA Practice Advisor's 40 Under 40, 20 Under 40, and Tax & Accounting Tech Innovation Awards.
April 14, 2020
Tax Scammers are Still in Business, Warns IRS
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
Illinois CPA Society Announces 2020 Outstanding Leadership Award Recipients
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
AICPA’s Offers Free Tools to Help Americans Weather Financial Impact of Coronavirus
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
Illinois’ Top CPA Exam Performers Honored With Excel Award
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
Some Businesses Choosing Debt Over Selling Stock to Avoid Audit
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
Online Risk Assessment Tool Helps Online Sellers Understand Sales Tax Obligations
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
What to Know When Your Clients Want to Expand Their Businesses to Another State
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 ...
April 13, 2020
AICPA News: April 2020
AICPA News is a roundup of recent announcements from the association.
April 11, 2020
QuickBooks Capital Approved as Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) Lender
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
IRS Launches Website for Non Tax Filers to Register for Coronavirus Stimulus Payments
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
The Most Important Reason to Automate Payments Now
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 ...
April 9, 2020
IRS Issues CARES Act Guidance for Taxpayers with NOLs
The Internal Revenue Service today has issued guidance providing tax relief under the CARES Act for taxpayers with net operating losses. Recently the IRS issued tax relief for partnerships filing amended returns.