Accounting February 28, 2026
Voting Opens for 2026 Readers’ Choice Awards!
Voting in the 2026 Readers’ Choice Awards is now open. Readers can vote for the programs, hardware, services, and other technologies they use and trust.
July 7, 2015
CPAs Weigh in on the Future of Peer Review
The Institute wants to build a system that would be programmed to provide a continuous analytical evaluation of a firm’s engagement performance that would require human review when the system identified concerns. It would review all firms that perform ...
July 7, 2015
Greatland Acquires W-2 and 1099 Company NewportWave
Greatland, a provider of W-2 and 1099 products for businesses, has acquired Irvine, Calif.-based NewportWave, a company specializing in W-2 and 1099 software and support.
July 6, 2015
What’s the Difference Between Your Personal Credit Score and Your Business Credit Score?
Personal credit scores range from 300 to 850 with a score of 680 or higher considered excellent, though each reporting agency uses its own proprietary algorithm to calculate a personal credit score so your score may vary somewhat with each of these ...
July 6, 2015
Thomson Reuters Issues Updates to Checkpoint Audit Portfolio
Thomson Reuters has released the 2015 editions of its widely-used series of audit guides and related practice aids for multiple industries, including commercial entities, nonprofit organizations, local governments, and employee benefit plans.
July 1, 2015
New Legal Confirmation Service Helps Auditors and Lawyers
The platform streamlines everything from preparing and post-dating letters for automated release, obtaining client approvals, tracking responses and receiving documented updates.
July 1, 2015
Canadian Summer Spending Expected to Heat Up
A new survey conducted for Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (CPA Canada) finds that almost half (46 per cent) of the respondents plan to spend more this summer when compared with the same season a year ago.
July 1, 2015
237,000 New Jobs Created in June
Payrolls for businesses with 49 or fewer employees increased by 120,000 jobs in June, the same as May. Employment among companies with 50-499 employees increased by 86,000 jobs, up from 63,000 the previous month.
June 30, 2015
Employment Growth Unchanged in First Half of Year
The national index has shown mixed results since September 2014, moving within a narrow band for the last ten months between 100.56 and 100.85.
June 30, 2015
Thomson Reuters Launches New Online CPE Events for Tax, Audit and Accounting
The conferences offered through Checkpoint Learning will be presented by leading AuditWatch, Gear Up and CPEasy training experts and will provide in-depth and up-to-date analysis of key issues such as health care reform, international taxation ...
June 30, 2015
Group Offers Sustainability Accounting Standards for Consumption Industries
Example disclosure topics include food safety, labeling & marketing integrity, climate change adaptation, and supply chain management. The standards average six topics per industry, and 71 percent of metrics are quantitative.
June 30, 2015
Survey Shows Which Airlines, Hotels, Restaurants Business Travelers Prefer
Results also show that employees are price-conscious while traveling on the company dime, with the majority sticking to the same diet (40%) or indulging a little (35%) and very few saying they took advantage of the company expense account (3%).
June 29, 2015
Microbusiness: Your Next Great Client
Finding, and securing, these owners as clients is a matter of doing what accountants have done since day one. Exchange referrals with your current clients, attend public networking events, join LinkedIn groups to participate in conversations, and ...