Accounting

 Registration opens for CCH Connections user conference in Phoenix

June 19, 2013 

Registration opens for CCH Connections user conference in Phoenix

CCH has opened the registration period for the CCH: Connections: User Conference 2013. This year’s conference will take place October 27-30 at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort & Spa in Phoenix, Arizona, offering tax and accounting professionals educational sessions, demonstrations of the most advanced industry solutions and exciting networking events. CCH, a part of...…

 What it means to be a digital CPA in a digital world

June 19, 2013 

What it means to be a digital CPA in a digital world

In today’s technology-driven profession, if you’re not keeping up, you’re falling behind. From web-based platforms and mobile, anywhere-anytime access to firm and client data, to collaboration tools and even modern telephony, accounting firms are finding that they must be early adopters of the technologies that are driving client demand. The partners of successful firms must...…

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June 19, 2013 

Google says No to NSA and FISA gag order, asks for exception

Google on Tuesday sharply challenged the federal government's gag order on its Internet surveillance program, citing what it described as a First Amendment right to divulge how many requests it receives from the government for data about its customers in the name of national security.

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June 18, 2013 

Online-only retailers branching out into physical stores

Across the country, retailers that existed only in cyberspace are now opening -- or thinking of opening -- traditional stores at a time when e-commerce's explosive growth has spawned a slew of dire predictions that brick-and-mortar retailing will become irrelevant or even extinct.

 The top factors that keep staff engaged and productive

June 17, 2013 

The top factors that keep staff engaged and productive

Flexibility, corporate culture and rewarding high performance are important to cultivate happy and productive employees, according to the Q2 2013 Engagement Study commissioned by Randstad, the second largest HR services and staffing company in the world.

 New York CPA Society endorses new FASB tax proposal

June 17, 2013 

New York CPA Society endorses new FASB tax proposal

The New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants (NYSSCPA) expressed agreement with a proposal from the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) that, if implemented, would standardize the treatment of net operating loss carryforwards or tax credit carryforwards on financial statements.