Accounting

September 11, 2013 

Edi Osborne, CEO of Mentor Plus, speaks about the role of accountants as the most trusted advisors of small businesses. From CPA Practice Advisor’s 2013 Thought Leader Symposium.

September 10, 2013 

To help business owners stay on top of health care reform, Paychex, Inc., a leading provider of payroll, human resource, insurance, and benefits outsourcing solutions for small- to medium-sized businesses, has outlined below, provisions of interest to business owners and their employees that are expected to take effect in 2014 or sooner, and those delayed…

September 10, 2013 

The tax and accounting branch of Thomson Reuters has acquired the continuing professional education and CPA exam preparation division of Bisk.

September 10, 2013 

In response to customer demand and increased regulatory scrutiny and enforcement, ACL has launched a new Anti-Bribery and Anti-Corruption Solution.

September 10, 2013 

There's a new collaborative financial management app that lets users securely establish and manage their social financial relationships. The new Yodlee app, called Tandem, allows users to set up financial circles from their phone contacts and social networks, with varying degrees of account access.

September 10, 2013 

xTuple, developers of open source enterprise resource planning software, announced the release of an updated version of its accounting, CRM and ERP software. xTuple 4.1 adds sales to the mobile web offering and includes new manufacturing and distribution features.

September 10, 2013 

Small-business optimism remained flat in August, dropping 0.1 points from July for a final reading of 94.0, showed NFIB’s Small Business Economic Trends, a monthly survey of small business owners’ plans and opinions.

September 9, 2013 

Dixon Hughes Goodman, one of the largest public accounting firms in the South, announced plans to expand to Nashville, Tenn., and the Tampa Bay Area, Fla.

September 9, 2013 

If you’re like me, your mobile device is an indispensable tool that you use on a daily basis to manage your personal life. The list of digital tools that I use is a long one.

Darren Root, CPA, CITP, CGMA

September 9, 2013 

Buying a light beer could soon make your wallet lighter, as Wyoming lawmakers are considering a proposal to raise the state's lowest-in-the-nation tax on beer.

September 9, 2013 

Seattle-based Amazon late last year hired Patton Boggs, a marquee Washington, D.C., lobbying group, to join two other firms on retainer as well as Amazon's in-house lobbyists in hopes of getting the Marketplace Fairness Act passed.

September 9, 2013 

One of Detroit's two pension funds handed out nearly $1 billion in bonus cash payments over two decades to retirees and active employees' retirement accounts instead of reinvesting the extra earnings for the future, according to a Free Press review of city records.