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 30, 2018
Former Oracle VP Joins Avalara as CTO and Engineering EVP
Prior to MobileIron, Fields worked at Oracle where he was a Group Vice President responsible for building the Oracle Service Cloud, which powers thousands of customer service centers around the world and is used by hundreds of thousands of support agents.
May 30, 2018
How to Innovate Like Google
Last year at the DigitalCPA Conference I got a chance to tour Google's Headquarters in Silicon Valley. I was with a group of leading partners in major firms including my great friend, Joey Havens. We were treated to a discussion with Google's Chief ...
May 30, 2018
Estate Planning Under the New Tax Reform Guidelines
With the estate tax that has risen to $11.2 million, and if married and you elect portability the exemption doubles to $22.4 million. You might be asking yourself, why do you need to know about estate planning? Very simply, gift tax still exists, as well
May 29, 2018
Top 10 Accounting Firm IT Survey Surprises
The upcoming conference season and lull before the extension season provides a great opportunity for firms to evaluate the current status of their production processes and target areas for improvement. The above highlighted findings of the ...
May 28, 2018
The IRS Has a 5-Year Plan to Help Taxpayers
The Fiscal Year 2018-2022 IRS Strategic Plan will serve as a roadmap to help guide the agency’s programs and operations. The plan will also help meet the changing needs of taxpayers and members of the tax community.
May 28, 2018
How Real Estate Giant Zillow Handles Sales and Use Tax Compliance — Part 2
In Part 2 of this interview, Scott Peterson, Vice President of U.S. Tax Policy and Government Relations for Avalara, continues his discussion with Jason Heckel, Senior Director of Tax at Zillow Group, who describes how he led Zillow in automating their...
May 25, 2018
Scammers Pose as Professional Organizations to Target Tax Pros
The IRS has received reports from tax professionals who received fake emails that were trying to trick them into disclosing their email usernames and passwords.
May 24, 2018
Dry-Docking: A Ship-Owner’s Accounting Dilemma
The accounting treatment for the dry-docking process has been debated for a long time may be because of the complications associated with the nature of the process. The debate mainly revolved around whether to capitalize the dry-docking costs or to ...
May 23, 2018
Adaptive Insights Launches Customer Journey Program
The new customer program is anchored by a new website that provides a broad view of the possibilities for more collaborative and comprehensive planning and then walks customers through the considerations for implementing the selected elements of their ...
May 23, 2018
Why Compliance is a CPA’s Competitive Weapon for 2018
As economies, businesses, and people progress through innovation, so must accountants adapt to the evolving role of finance. The days of the one-dimensional CPA number cruncher are long gone. Accountants are increasingly expected to master areas ...
May 22, 2018
What AI Means for the Accounting Profession: Part II
We see a number of products that are running crude AI today and vendors that are pretty far along in their use of AI. Getting products that apply to small and medium businesses are more of a challenge, but we see efforts at Intuit, Xero, BQE Core, ...
May 22, 2018
Why and How: Artificial Intelligence: Part I
One of the hot areas of emerging technology is Artificial Intelligence or AI. You know a topic is hot when products use the terminology in their name or in their marketing materials. We’ve see this done with “ease of use”, Cloud Computing, and Blockchain.