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).
June 6, 2016
Increase in Payments Fraud Worries Financial Pros
Eighty-eight percent surveyed believe that payments fraud will become a bigger threat to the financial services sector over the next two to three years. Despite this anticipated increase, just one in 10 attendees felt that an effective ...
June 3, 2016
3 Steps Businesses Can Take to Avoid Cyber Crime
Apparently, the heist couldn’t have been any simpler if it had been drawn up in the lunch line at an elementary school cafeteria.
June 3, 2016
Thomson Reuters Releases New SMART Practice Aids Single Audit Source
The new product works in conjunction with Thomson Reuters Checkpoint Tools, including PPC’s Practice Aids for Single Audits, Audits of Nonprofit Organizations, Audits of Local Governments, Audits of School Districts, and Housing and Urban Development (HUD
June 3, 2016
73% of Accountants Say Their Business Clients Will Add Jobs in 2016
Nearly three-fourths (73 percent) of accountants say their business clients are planning to increase or maintain their number of employees over the next 12 months and only five percent noted that businesses plan to reduce their number of employees in ...
June 3, 2016
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June 2, 2016
Execs Worry Over FATCA and CRS Compliance
More than 50 percent of senior executives from multinational financial firms are concerned non-compliance with the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) and Common Reporting Standard (CRS) mandates could affect the reputations of their institutions.
June 2, 2016
2016 Innovation Awards Announced in L.A.
The winners and finalists for the 13th annual Tax & Accounting Technology Innovation Awards reflect this focus on workflow and automation, which allow firms and their small business clients to operate more efficiently and profitably.
June 1, 2016
Doc.It Enhances AutoFiling, Time and Billing Integration, and Workflow
Doc.It’s AutoFiling feature helps accounting firms automatically file documents from tax, time and billing, and other software programs to a designated Doc.It User Inbox, a folder in a Doc.It Work Binder or to the client’s Archive.
June 1, 2016
Transparency is a Must if Using a Compensation Committee for Partner Compensation
If you ask 10 different people to define one of today’s buzzwords – transparency – you will get 10 different answers. This post addresses “transparency” as it relates to a CPA firm compensation committee.
June 1, 2016
Your Identity Has Already Been Stolen, Warns Inspiration for Catch Me If You Can
Your identity has already been stolen, whether you know it or not, according to one of the most senior identity theft experts in the world. Abagnale was the real-life inspiration for the character played my Leonardo DiCaprio in the 2002 movie "Catch ...
June 1, 2016
SEC Filers Lowered Errors by 64% Using XBRL Validation Rules
The XBRL US Data Quality Committee (DQC) today announced that overall, by using its first set of validation rules, filers reduced the number of errors in their filings for the data covered by those rules by 64 percent in the first quarter of 2016 as ...
May 30, 2016
Canadian CFOs Take Four Weeks to Fill Finance Positions
Imagine being without a valuable employee for a month. That's the situation accounting and finance departments typically find themselves in when a member of the team moves on. According to a new survey from ...