Accounting

January 12, 2019 

CEO Loretta Doon, CPA, will be retiring in June 2019. After an extensive nationwide search, the CalCPA board of directors and the foundation board of trustees have named Anthony Pugliese, CPA, CGMA, CITP, as the new incoming CEO of both organizations.

January 12, 2019 

The Small Business Administration stopped processing new small business loans due to the government shutdown. Thousands of small business owners across the country are unable to receive critical funding to start and grow their businesses because ...

January 10, 2019 

Transient occupancy taxes are levied on facilities that provide accommodations for customers. The obvious model is a hotel or motel. But that might be the only thing that’s obvious about these taxes. Like sales taxes, transient occupancy taxes ...

January 10, 2019 

More than five states will require out-of-state sellers to collect and remit sales tax starting January 1, 2019: Georgia, Iowa, Nebraska, Utah, West Virginia, and Washington, D.C. That same date, new sales tax collection requirements for marketplace facilitators will take effect in Alabama. States were once prohibited from taxing sales by businesses with no physical...…

January 10, 2019 

EVAN combats these issues with a non-traditional approach. Dubbed “The Uber for IT support,” EVAN provides modern solutions for businesses’ most pressing IT needs. EVAN diagnoses problems in less than five minutes and resolves them in an average of 33 ...

January 8, 2019 

Enhanced disclosures, along with related metrics, can promote important dialogue and deepen the understanding of audit quality, according to a new resource published by the Center for Audit Quality (CAQ). The Audit Quality Disclosure Framework assists ...

January 8, 2019 

Zwickert was formerly Chief People Officer at NetSuite (now Oracle NetSuite), a provider of cloud-based applications, where she transformed the company’s Human Resources function through technological innovations. Prior to NetSuite, Zwickert was EVP ...

January 8, 2019 

The ITA is an independent, not-for-profit, professional association of leading CPA firms, consulting firms and technology vendors whose purpose is to share information and build relationships that improve the way its member firms, and their clients, ...

January 8, 2019 

During the program, the following organizations presented sessions and many interviewed students for a variety of paid accounting internships: Abbott, Crowe LLP, Deloitte LLP, Ernst & Young LLP, Grant Thornton LLP, KPMG LLP, PwC LLP, and Sikich LLP.

January 7, 2019 

Christopher D. Ittner and Jeremy Michels of The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, were named recipients of the 2019 Greatest Potential Impact on Management Accounting Practice Award.

January 7, 2019 

Since its enactment in 2002 in response to notorious financial scandals at Enron, WorldCom, and other corporate behemoths, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, or SOX, has been a continuing target of criticism. And probably no provision of the law has provoked ...

January 7, 2019 

The award recognizes professionals who have made a significant contribution to management accounting education, research and practice. It is sponsored by the Association, the global accounting organization formed by members of the American Institute ...