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.
May 13, 2021
Setting Your Clients Up for Success with the American Rescue Plan
While every tax season can get a bit hectic, this one will prove extra challenging for tax professionals and their clients. It’s critical to make sure that you set your clients up for success to ensure that they’ll be able to navigate this complicated ...
May 13, 2021
Keynote Speakers Announced for FICPA MEGA Conference 2021
CPA.com’s President & CEO Erik Asgeirsson will present “Acceleration of Change,” an in-depth look at the rapid evolution of the CPA profession throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. He’ll be followed by Stetson University’s Randall Croom, Ph.D.
May 13, 2021
Client Experience for Today – Practice Management for Today
From the May 2021 Issue. Has your practice evolved to a new way of working, or are you doing things pretty much as you did a decade or more ago? Through the years, I have tried to show you a safe way to upgrade your practice tools with technology while still serving your client well...…
May 12, 2021
How Working Conditions and Attitudes Have Changed Due to the Pandemic
COVID-19 has dented worker sentiment: although the majority (86%) of workers still say they feel optimistic about the next five years in the workplace, this is down from 92% last year. While overall optimism may be the long-term outlook, it is uneven ...
May 12, 2021
IRS Issues Guidance on Taxability of Dependent Care Assistance Programs
Notice 2021-26 clarifies for taxpayers that if these dependent care benefits would have been excluded from income if used during taxable year 2020 (or 2021, if applicable), these benefits will remain excludible from gross income and are not considered ...
May 12, 2021
Major Tax Changes in the American Rescue Plan
Several provisions affect the 2020 tax return people are filling out this filing season, including one exempting up to $10,200 in unemployment compensation from tax and another benefiting many people who purchased subsidized health coverage through ...
May 10, 2021
Onboarding and Offboarding Employees: Why Getting it Right Matters
In the age of remote working and no-handshake protocols, exemplary welcomes and farewells may seem harder than ever. But just as routines and cultures have changed, so have best practices for orienting new employees, and, as a manager, it’s important...
May 7, 2021
10 Easy Blog Topics for The Busy CPA
Who has time to write blog content? Probably not you, but you know you need content on your website to increase your firm’s search engine ranking.
May 5, 2021
Accounting in a Multi-Channel, Third-Party World
For years now, e-commerce has grown its share of the market by leaps and bounds. The pandemic only accelerated that trend, with US ecommerce sales growing 44 percent over the course of 2020. With most brick-and-mortar locations having to close at least...
May 4, 2021
Using Technology to Empower CPAs
Do you see the increasing use of automation, artificial intelligence, and other new technology and wonder what it might mean for your business? The fear of technology is a tale as old as time. Early technophobes thought the printing press would never ...
May 4, 2021
Sovos Acquires Digital Enablement Business of Chile-Based Acepta
Acepta’s SMB platform is used by customers today in Chile, Peru and Colombia. With SMB customers in the U.S., Turkey, Mexico and other regions, Sovos will further leverage its expanded product portfolio to meet the growing, global demand for ...
May 4, 2021
Small Business Jobs Grew Significantly in April
The Small Business Jobs Index increased 4.33 percent from March to 98.34 in April, a positive indicator of job growth returning to pre-pandemic levels.