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 28, 2015
Ranking the Best Jobs for Women in 2015
Actuary, event planner and public relations manager have been named among the best jobs for women in the new CareerCast report on the Best Jobs for Women, while such STEM jobs as biomedical engineer, statistician and ...
May 28, 2015
Small Businesses Worry About Impact of Google Mobile Update
A significant number of SMEs in the survey were unsure about the relationship between mobile and desktop searches, with 49% revealing they didn’t know if sales on their desktops sites had initially come from visitors viewing their products or services on
May 28, 2015
How to Win the Talent Wars
Statistics show that employers are currently advertising to fill 51 million open positions, an all-time record. Many business owners complain bitterly about the lack of talent in the hiring pool—especially in sales, technical jobs and trades.
May 28, 2015
KPMG Hosts Global Analysts Day
The day-long event featured presentations, one-on-one sessions and demonstrations of new solutions and service-delivery methods, with KPMG speakers addressing topics in keeping with the day’s theme, “Innovation. Globally Executed.”
May 27, 2015
What Taxpayers Should Do If Their Info Was Exposed On IRS Website
Taxpayers whose accounts were compromised will be notified by the Internal Revenue Service. Individuals who believe their identities have been compromised in this, or any other attempt, should review the IRS “Taxpayer Guide to Identity Theft,” which ...
May 27, 2015
How CPA Firms Can Reduce Staff Turnover and Boost Profits
The talent war has resumed among CPA firms vying for top candidates. During the recession, most firms focused their resources on the struggle to maintain a stable client base. Hiring was sluggish, and companies therefore did not have to worry much about
May 27, 2015
IRS Data Breach Sets Off Alarms, FBI to Investigate
A serious security breach at the IRS has the agency scrambling to beef up its ID theft efforts while the public and lawmakers stew. The IRS announced on May 26 that hackers had gained access to the personal information of more than 100,000 American househ
May 26, 2015
Avalara Partners with Epicor for App to Support Sales Tax Calculation, Invoicing in Field
Avalara, which makes cloud-based sales tax, VAT and transactional tax compliance systems, has developed a mobile application that combines Epicor Mobile Field Service with Epicor Tax Connect to support more accurate and streamlined invoicing in the field.
May 26, 2015
Is Your Firm Ready for Automation?
The opportunities for automation created by advances in technology are greater than ever before and this is changing the expectations of clients, employees and partners about how they exchange data with your firm. It will also continue to have a major ...
May 25, 2015
App Building Contest Focuses On Small Businesses
The company behind the app-building system Appsbar has created the Small Business App Challenge to inspire small business owners and operators to bring their products and services to mobile platforms.
May 20, 2015
QuickBooks, NetSuite, Intacct, Xero and FreshBooks Earn High Marks in Accounting Software Rankings
Four platforms earn Leader status while Intacct tops overall satisfaction rankings in crowdsourced report
May 19, 2015
New ATX Advantage Bundles Tax Prep, Research and Learning, Practice Management
The bundle expands the widely popular ATX Total Tax Office software solution to include extensive compliance research and learning, practice management and more at a highly competitive price.