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.
October 8, 2014
5 Ways to Help Ensure the Success of Family Businesses
Non-family businesses can learn a lot from family businesses, says Henry Hutcheson, a certified Family Business Advisor and founder of Family Business USA consultancy.
October 8, 2014
Open Systems Inc Acquires Adaptive Business Solutions
Business software developer Open Systems, Inc., has acquired Adaptive Business Solutions (ABS) of Indianapolis, Indiana. The ABS staff will continue to work in Indianapolis as the Indiana Regional Office of Open Systems, Inc.
October 7, 2014
Success is the Word: A Look at QuickBooks Accountant Desktop 2015
Intuit’s Small Business vision remains at the core of its business, as it continues to connect small business owners and accountants through the QuickBooks Cloud.
October 6, 2014
The Advisory Board and AAM to Partner for Winning is Everything Conference
The Advisory Board is partnering with the Association for Accounting Marketing to provide executive-level marketing sessions at the 2015 Winning is Everything Conference. The sessions are designed to ...
October 3, 2014
IRS Issues New Rules for Local Hotel Expenses
Normally, a taxpayer may deduct travel expenses, including the cost of lodging, only when he or she is “away from home” on business. For this purpose, home means your tax home, usually the area surrounding your principal place of business ...
October 2, 2014
New Cabinet AP Module Automates Accounts Payable Tasks
Cabinet Document Management Solutions has launched Cabinet AP, a new module for its Cabinet SAFE product that is designed to automate manual processes in document-intensive tasks like accounts payable processing. Cabinet is a maker of electronic document
October 2, 2014
KPMG Acquires Qubera
The global Big 4 accounting and consulting firm KPMG LLP has acquired “certain” assets of the cyber-security firm Qubera Solutions. The companies say that the transaction will strengthen the KPMG network’s security transformation capabilities in several service areas, including Cloud Identity Federation, Identity as a Service (IDaaS), Identity Governance, and IAM solution implementation. “As threats...…
October 2, 2014
Optimism Among Small and Mid-Sized Business CEOs Hits 2-Year High
Optimism among small and mid-sized business leaders is at a reported two year high, according to the Vistage CEO Confidence Index, the largest survey of chief executives from small and medium-sized businesses in the United States. And this vote of confide
October 1, 2014
FreshBooks Launches Online Payments Service
FreshBooks, which makes cloud accounting solutions for service-based small business owners, has added its own online payments to the FreshBooks platform. The new offering allows business users in the United States and Canada to quickly set up ...
October 1, 2014
ADP Jobs Report Shows 217,000 New Jobs in September
The total number of jobs in the U.S. private sector increased by 213,000 from August to September, according to the latest ADP National Employment Report.
October 1, 2014
Charitable Donations Increase by Most Since Great Recession
A new analysis of how Americans and Canadians donate to nonprofit organizations shows the greatest overall increase since 2008.
October 1, 2014
The Three Rs of Travel & Entertainment Deductions: Records, Records and More Records
[This is the last in a series of articles on maximizingdeductions for travel and entertainment (T&E) expenses.] In the not-so-distant past, the IRS often suspected that deductions for travel and entertainment (T&E) were being inflated or, even worse, being claimed when no legitimate expenses existed. Eventually, it carved out a strict set of recordkeeping requirements for...…