Accounting June 28, 2025
Nominations Open for 2025 Innovation Awards
The Innovation Awards highlight technologies that are shaping the profession and small businesses through increased collaboration and productivity.
August 23, 2018
Why and How: Blockchain
Blockchain seems to be everywhere in the press and conferences related to accounting. There is clear merit to this coverage and blockchain is a technology with long-term importance. Applications have only been developed in a few pilot projects ...
August 21, 2018
APIs and RPA Tools Automate Client Services
Whether it is capturing data from credit card receipts, reconciling bank statements, reimbursing expense reports, or automatically updating IRS tax statuses, these tools utilize a combination of machine learning, Optical Character Recognition (OCR), ...
August 21, 2018
Thomson Reuters Provides Guidance on New Accounting Standard for Nonprofit Organizations
Thomson Reuters has released a Checkpoint report that provides guidance on a new Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) accounting standard related to the preparation of financial statements for nonprofit organizations.
August 20, 2018
August 2018 Accounting & Audit Channel
Four Ways to Evolve Your Auditing Firm Today By Matt Towers, Product Manager, Thomson Reuters Tax & Accounting By now, most of us have been exposed to some sort of doom and gloom message about automated systems and ‘robots’ taking over the future of the tax and accounting profession. Google “jobs most likely to be...…
August 19, 2018
Financial Execs Plan to Modernize Compliance in Coming Year
Almost half (48.3 percent) of risk and compliance, internal audit, C-suite executive and board professionals plan to modernize their compliance functions by changing core compliance execution practices during the next 12 months, according to a recent ...
August 13, 2018
AICPA Presents Awards to Outstanding CPAs in Government
The American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) has presented Deborah Loveless, CPA, CGFM, CGMA of Hendersonville, Tenn., with the Institute’s 2018 Outstanding CPA in Government Career Contribution Award honoring her lifelong contribution to the profession.
August 13, 2018
Massachusetts Society of CPAs Honors Seven Women for Contributions to Profession
Seven Massachusetts women were selected, three in the Emerging Leader category for professionals with 15 years of experience or less, and four in the Experienced Leader category, reserved for women with more than 15 years in the field.
August 8, 2018
Illinois CPA Society Rebrands Annual Tradeshow
What used to be known as the Midwest Accounting & Finance Showcase is now ICPAS SUMMIT18. The two-day program, featuring presentations from key thought leaders, innovative learning sessions and top-tier exhibitors, will be held on August 28 - 29 at the ..
August 7, 2018
AICPA Honors Four Professors for Contributions to Accounting Literature
In addition to the award, the recipients received $2,500. The Notable Contributions to Accounting Literature Award is given annually to work which has withstood a rigorous process of screening and scrutiny based on certain criteria, such as ...
August 6, 2018
Companies Using Non-GAAP Metrics to Inflate Earnings
So striking is the change that it calls market gains into question, says a new report by the American Accounting Association.
August 1, 2018
Grant Thornton’s Jim Burton to Lead AICPA’s Assurance Services Executive Committee
The ASEC mission is to support the profession in serving the public interest by anticipating, identifying, assessing and addressing evolving market needs and demand for assurance and advisory solutions. ASEC develops relevant thought leadership, ...
August 1, 2018
Workiva Helps KeyBank Modernize Financial Operations
Gilbert’s technical accounting team maintains the bank’s accounting policies and implements new accounting standards established by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). Most recently, her team implemented the FASB Accounting Standards ...