Advisory December 8, 2025
Building the Next Generation of Global Delivery
The next era of global delivery will be defined by firms that invest in capability, embrace technology‑enabled operating models, and cultivate strategic partnerships.
March 23, 2020
4 Ways to Practice Entrepreneurial Perseverance
Perseverance is a skill that anyone can learn to thrive through life’s curves. When adversity strikes, it’s not what happens to you but how you respond to what happens to you that has the greatest impact on your life. Here are four specific actions ...
March 20, 2020
Tax Planning Strategies: How to Maximize the Qualified Business Income Deduction?
The qualified business income (QBI) deduction is the centerpiece provision of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and applies from 2018 through 2025. Qualified business income is aggregated from a partnership, S corporation, limited liability company and sole ...
March 20, 2020
Accounting Firm Carr Riggs Ingram Acquires New Mexico Firm Barraclough & Associates
CRI has expertise ranging from basic accounting services, to tax review, compilation, and preparation, and general business consulting. They also offer tax services to corporate entities, individuals, and trusts, with particular industry expertise ...
March 20, 2020
KPMG, Thomson Reuters and 3 Universities Partner to Better Prepare Tax, Accounting Students
KPMG LLP, the audit, tax and advisory firm, together with Thomson Reuters and three universities, has developed an interactive and immersive case study used in the classroom at each school to better prepare tax and accounting students with the...
March 12, 2020
Baker Tilly Acquires Wisconsin Data Analytics Firm Talavant
Talavant excels in helping organizations leverage data as a competitive asset, a service that builds upon Baker Tilly Digital, a suite of data analytic and advanced technology capabilities that help companies navigate the complexities of digital ...
March 12, 2020
AICPA Unveils New Supply Chain Risk Management Reporting Framework
The SOC for Supply Chain framework is a market-driven, flexible and voluntary framework for organizations to communicate certain information about their manufacturing, production or distribution system and the effectiveness of controls that mitigate ...
March 10, 2020
The Finance Organization is Changing … Are You?
The role of finance continues to evolve into strategic business advisors As business becomes more complex, immediate access to accurate and comprehensive data becomes critical. The Accounting and Finance (A&F) organization manages and analyzes more data than any other department. Therefore, A&F is in a unique position serve as a strategic advisor to business leaders...…
March 10, 2020
Tax and Tax Audit Services Need More Automation
Research data for the Big 4 firms shows Audit and Advisory being the biggest source of revenue for three of the big firms. (The one exception, Deloitte, is remarkably strong in Advisory Services, making it the single largest earner ...
March 10, 2020
Does Your Firm Have a Clear Vision on Advisory Services?
When we look at the services offered by firms of differing sizes, smaller firms tend to produce about 80% of their revenue from tax and about 20% from Advisory and Consulting services. Larger firms tend to split their revenue as 40% from tax, 40% from ...
March 9, 2020
Dow Jones Falls 1,600, Triggers Stop in Trading
An oil price war triggered by the spreading coronavirus sent already anxious financial markets into chaos Monday, with stocks plunging and crude prices collapsing in a worldwide panic that threatens a global economic recession. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index dropped 7% in the first minutes, triggering a 15-minute halt in trading. When trading resumed,...…
March 5, 2020
Half of Entities Subject to GASB Standards Have Not Started Lease Accounting Compliance
Work to adopt the mandatory Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) lease accounting standard (GASB 87) has not begun for half of those employed in state and local governments (51.4%) and public higher education institutions (50%), per a ...
March 5, 2020
Eide Bailly Merges in HMWC
Eide Bailly LLP, a Top 25 accounting firm based in Fargo, North Dakota, is expanding in California by adding HMWC CPAs, a firm based in Tustin, effective May 18, 2020.