Accounting October 6, 2026
The 2026 AI Finance Stack
73 tools worth knowing, how I would put them together, and the trends behind why finance teams are picking them.
June 15, 2018
AICPA Names Winner of Outstanding Young CPA Award
The annual award, now in its seventh year, recognizes a CPA under age 41 who personifies an unwavering commitment as demonstrated through successful practices, involvement in and contributions for the interest of the accounting profession.
June 15, 2018
Center for Audit Quality Funds Four Research Projects
The Center for Audit Quality (CAQ) has announced four grants to fund independent academic research on projects of interest to the auditing profession. Over the past 10 years, the CAQ has provided funding for 39 projects through its Research Advisory ...
June 15, 2018
Why and How: Big Data
If Cognitive Computing drives much of the emerging technology computer science research, most of the data science research is focused on Big Data. Big Data can be analyzed to produce actionable business information. This data analysis need may explain ...
June 14, 2018
New CCH Axcess Data Insights Helps Firms Turn Data into Visual Business Intelligence
The health of a firm is often monitored through static reports that are periodically generated. In addition to being time consuming, static reports quickly become out of date, are inflexible and can be difficult to use.
June 14, 2018
AICPA Honors Young Personal Financial Planning Pros
The American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) has honored 17 CPAs under the age of 40 for their contributions to personal financial planning with the Personal Financial Planning (PFP) Standing Ovation. These CPA financial planners were honored at the AICPA’s ...
June 13, 2018
Entertainment Accounting Conference Speaker Focused on Sexual Harassment
A conversation between attorney Nina Shaw, a co-founder of the Time’s Up movement against sexual harassment, and Peter Caranicas, Variety Magazine managing editor for features, was the highlight of the 48th annual Entertainment Industry Conference.
June 13, 2018
Survey Shows Accounting Teams Embrace Technology to Solve Hiring Challenges
The shifting cultural attitudes towards technology are also crucial in the criteria for recruiting and retaining accounting talent. 97 percent of total respondents already savvy in cloud technology feel it has been good for their career. 86 percent of ...
June 13, 2018
AICPA Launches New Personal Financial Planning Certificates Program
This new curriculum offers CPAs an opportunity to expand their knowledge in personal financial planning and a new pathway to the Personal Financial Specialist (PFS) credential.
June 12, 2018
BKR Awards Accounting Scholarship to Honor Student in Dominican Republic
The scholarship was announced and presented during BKR’s Americas Regional Meeting, held this year in La Romana, Dominican Republic.
June 12, 2018
Illinois CPA Society Members Honored for Achieving Highest CPA Exam Scores
Elijah Watt Sells was one of the nation’s first CPAs and played a key role in helping to advance professional education in accounting. Each year since 1923, the AICPA has honored those achieving outstanding performances on the Uniform CPA Exam with the ..
June 12, 2018
AICPA Announces Scholarship Winner for Personal Financial Planning
Deblanc was presented the award at the AICPA’s Advanced Estate Planning Conference in Las Vegas, part of AICPA ENGAGE. The annual scholarship is awarded to a CPA who has 10 years or less in workforce and less than 10 years of experience in estate ...
June 12, 2018
New Features Added to Integrated Audit Approach
During the AICPA Engage conference, Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting announced enhancements to the Integrated Audit Approach, leveraging auditor expertise to drive the overall audit process with enhancements to the client collaboration solutions and ...