Accounting February 6, 2026
AICPA News – Feb. 2026
AICPA News is a round-up of recent announcements from the American Institute of CPAs, the Association of International CPAs, and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA).
May 25, 2018
IAASB Launches Survey to Identify Key Issues
The survey serves as an important tool to help identify key issues for consideration in developing its future strategy in the context of the IAASB’s broad strategic focus and the changing environment, and with the overriding objective of serving the ...
May 25, 2018
New Resource for Nonprofits and FASB ASU 2016-14
While the overall goal of FASB ASU 2016-14 is to provide more useful information to donors, grantors, creditors, and other users of financial statements, particularly addressing the long-term sustainability of the organization, questions remain for ...
May 24, 2018
5 Retirement Tips for Small Business Owners
Preparing financially for retirement can be complicated for anyone, but for small business owners the process often poses even more challenges.
May 24, 2018
Dry-Docking: A Ship-Owner’s Accounting Dilemma
The accounting treatment for the dry-docking process has been debated for a long time may be because of the complications associated with the nature of the process. The debate mainly revolved around whether to capitalize the dry-docking costs or to ...
May 23, 2018
Adaptive Insights Launches Customer Journey Program
The new customer program is anchored by a new website that provides a broad view of the possibilities for more collaborative and comprehensive planning and then walks customers through the considerations for implementing the selected elements of their ...
May 23, 2018
Why Compliance is a CPA’s Competitive Weapon for 2018
As economies, businesses, and people progress through innovation, so must accountants adapt to the evolving role of finance. The days of the one-dimensional CPA number cruncher are long gone. Accountants are increasingly expected to master areas ...
May 22, 2018
FBI Tips on Network Security for Small Business
In addition to securing your data, there are everyday network security concerns that we all face. Here’s what we learned by talking with a James M.T. Morrison, a Senior Computer Scientist at the FBI who is working to educate and empower companies to be mo
May 22, 2018
What AI Means for the Accounting Profession: Part II
We see a number of products that are running crude AI today and vendors that are pretty far along in their use of AI. Getting products that apply to small and medium businesses are more of a challenge, but we see efforts at Intuit, Xero, BQE Core, ...
May 22, 2018
Why and How: Artificial Intelligence: Part I
One of the hot areas of emerging technology is Artificial Intelligence or AI. You know a topic is hot when products use the terminology in their name or in their marketing materials. We’ve see this done with “ease of use”, Cloud Computing, and Blockchain.
May 22, 2018
I’m Lucky to Know About Mom-and-Pop Businesses
My father owned his own business. He got up earlier than the sun in the morning and came home after dark every night. He worked harder than any of the dozens of employees who punched a clock in his tool & die company.
May 22, 2018
Apps We Love May 2018: Parenting and Childcare Apps
As we head into the summer months, many working parents will be searching for options to help with child care. You may have your tried and true favorites, you work from home, a responsible family member moves in for the summer, your kids are in a ...
May 22, 2018
No Surprise: Women Freelancers Love Independence of Digital Economy
Despite the merits that the digital economy affords women, especially as gender parity in the corporate workplace falls under scrutiny, 90 percent of India respondents and 41 percent of U.S. respondents identify transaction fees on payments as one ...