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).
August 19, 2016
Businesses Must Change to Address Technology and Workforce
Companies are overhauling their organizational structure and shifting away from hierarchical, functional business models toward cross-functional “networks of teams,” in an effort to become more agile, collaborative and customer-focused.
August 18, 2016
CCH Accounting Research Manager Gets New Interface
The new CCH ARM interface quickly delivers needed information to maintain compliance in the face of constantly changing rules and regulations. This powerful research tool provides results with meaningful context and interpretive guidance linked to ...
August 18, 2016
Private Companies, Financial Technology and a Winning Opportunity for CPAs
We live in an era of rapid innovation in financial technology that is transforming how banks, private equity firms and other investors evaluate business opportunities and quantify risk. Yet the prevailing methods for exchanging private company ...
August 18, 2016
Fraud Examples Demonstrate Need for RIVIO Clearinghouse
The new RIVIO Clearinghouse (see accompanying article) is a solution to a problem of financial hijinks with which you might not be familiar. After all, most CPAs perform their services ethically and expect their clients to represent their financial ...
August 18, 2016
How ScanWriter Helped An Accountant Achieve Maximum Efficiency
After having used ScanWriter for more than four years, Luis says the system saves him time that would be wasted on data entry, which lets him take on more clients, which means more revenue. In fact, ScanWriter can enter more than 100 transactions in ...
August 18, 2016
Economy Ranks as Top Election Issue for Small Biz Owners
After the economy, the other issues cited by small business owners as most important follow in order as health care reform (10%), tax reform (9%), jobs and employment (6%), and immigration (6%).
August 18, 2016
Report Shows Banks Unprepared for New FATCA, CRS, CDOT Regs
The research, conducted by Aberdeen Group and commissioned by Sovos Compliance, a global leader in business-to-government tax, compliance and reporting software, is based on responses from leaders at 100 top financial institutions, which are ...
August 18, 2016
Xero and TSheets Partner for Small Biz FLSA Compliance
Under the FLSA, employers are required to keep accurate timesheets for overtime-eligible employees for at least two years. Without easily accessible records, it’s very hard to defend against wage and hours disputes in a court of law.
August 18, 2016
Avalara Wins Xero Emerging App Partner of the Year Award
Xero’s integration with Avalara in 2015 gave Xero customers access to real-time sales tax rates, in addition to auto-preparing sales tax returns in as little as five minutes using Avalara TrustFil
August 16, 2016
Xero and PayPal Partner to Deliver Express Checkout
With PayPal Express Checkout for Xero, clients will be able to pay in just a few clicks from directly within the invoice, speeding time to funds. This announcement was made at Xerocon 2016 in San Francisco on August 1517, 2016.
August 16, 2016
BKR Awards $12,000 in Accounting Scholarships
The global association of accounting firms BKR International recently presented its annual scholarship awards to honor accounting students around the world for their exemplary academic achievements in the accounting profession.
August 16, 2016
Free Research Database Available to Audit Practitioners
The Auditing Section of the American Accounting Association has launched www.AuditingResearchSummaries.org, a free comprehensive database containing concise summaries of auditing research published in the seven most prestigious journals in the field ...