The Q1 SEC Audit Client Scorecard

Big Four firm KPMG led the pack among large and national firms in the market for Securities and Exchange Commission audit clients in the first... Read more »

TSCPA Creates Relief Fund for Members Affected by Explosion

The Central Texas Chapter of the Texas Society of CPAs has established a relief fund for members affected by the West, Texas, fertilizer plant... Read more »

Taxing Times for the Restaurant Industry

As a CPA and attorney at law, this office has certainly seen its share of food service industry examinations, both at the federal and state levels. Read more »

BCG & Co. Hires Hastings as COO

Tom Hastings rejoins the firm after a two-year CFO stint at a nonprofit organization. The former partner will now oversee the strategic financial... Read more »

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AICPA Votes to Allow Revised Definition of Attest Services

AICPA Council voted to allow changes in the definition of “attest” during its Spring Meeting of Council in an effort to fend off competition from non-CPA firms and unlicensed CPAs who offer attest services using AICPA standards. Read more »
Tax Essentials

IRS to Refund Fees for Canceled Tax Preparer Tests
Abdo, Eick & Meyers and Francis & Associates Merge

Merger between Minnesota firms will take effect on Nov. 1. 2013. Read more »
Outgoing IRS Chief Miller Denies Targeting at Congressional Hearing

Steven Miller, who is being forced out as acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, said the agency has learned from its mistakes while denying that it had targeted nonprofit groups for review because of their political views. Read more »
Group Challenges IRS Tax-Exempt Criteria

Advocacy group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington continues to press ahead with a lawsuit against the IRS to force it to reject tax exemptions from political groups. Read more »
Deutsche Bank’s Kirkland Becomes NYSSCPA President

J. Michael Kirkland, CPA, a director in Deutsche Bank's Accounting Policy and Advisory Group was installed as the 2013–2014 president of the New York State Society of CPAs’ board. Read more »

Council Aims to Offer Credentials Overseas

In a vote at its Spring Meeting, the Governing Council of the American Institute of CPAs authorized the board to offer the institute’s credentials overseas. Read more »
Report from Council: Melancon Keynote Highlights Transformation

In a wide-ranging keynote address at the Spring Meeting of the Governing Council of the American Institute of CPAs, president and CEO Barry Melancon described an accounting profession in the midst of a variety of transformations. Read more »
Wolters Kluwer Acquires Brazilian Tax and Accounting Software Developer Prosoft

Wolters Kluwer has acquired Prosoft Tecnologia, a provider of tax and accounting software based in Sao Paolo, Brazil. Read more »
Report from Council: CGMA Exam Details Emerge

In a panel featuring members from industry at the Spring Meeting of Council of the American Institute of CPAs, institute senior vice president Arleen Thomas shared some of the details of the upcoming exam for the Certified Global Management Accountant credential. Read more »
IRS Watch

Obama Appoints Budget Official as Acting IRS Commissioner
FASB, IASB Propose Major Changes to Lease Accounting

Revised exposure draft proposes significant changes to standards for accounting for leases. Read more »

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Paul Mancinone

Taxing Times for the Restaurant Industry

May 20, 2013

Get more from your marketing

Marketing and sales are time-consuming but necessary to getting more business. For most CPAs with whom I work, time is always a challenge. Most think doing more is the answer, but not always. Read more »
May 17, 2013

Weaver supports Feed the Children with funds, volunteers

The Weaver Private Foundation named Feed the Children its Charity of Choice for fiscal year 2012-13, contributing $45,000 to the organization in conjunction with local partner agencies where the Southwest accounting firm has offices. Read more »
May 16, 2013

E&Y connects with NYC students for day of service

As many as 500 Ernst & Young professionals will be deployed in New York City to deliver financial literacy, entrepreneurship, college and career-readiness education to 3,000 K-12 NYC public school students Friday, May 17, as part of the annual day of community service, EY Connect Day. Read more »
May 15, 2013

ICPAS hosts Women's Leadership Breakfast

The Women’s Executive Committee of the Illinois CPA Society is hosting a Women’s Leadership Breakfast Friday, May 17, featuring documentarian and author Dr. Kelly Richmond Pope as speaker. Read more »
May 14, 2013

CPA comedian hopes to stand-up and deliver in festival competition

CPA, comedian and Accounting Today Twitter personality favorite Greg Kyte will be participating in the Laughing Devil Comedy Festival in Long Island City Tuesday night, May 14. Read more »
May 13, 2013

The Offsite500 race beats any chicken dinner

Do you remember hearing about that crazy group of CPAs who played trampoline dodgeball at the AICPA’s Tech+ Practitioner’s Symposium last year? Did you think to yourself, “Hey, I want hang with them!” Read more »

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Women in Accounting: Where are the Leading Ladies?

May 17, 2013

Marcum’s Nanette Lee Miller and Janis Cowhey McDonagh sat down with managing editor Tamika Cody to discuss some of the obstacles women in the accounting profession face when trying to make their way into leadership positions.

IMA’s Jeff Thomson on the Role and Skills of Management Accountants

May 8, 2013

Institute of Management Accountants president and CEO Jeffrey Thomson discusses why accounting students should consider management accounting as a career, and the IMA's partnership with John Wiley & Sons.

Breaking out of Molds to Get Ahead

May 6, 2013

ConvergenceCoaching partner Jennifer Wilson talks with Accounting Today senior editor Danielle Lee about how female accountants can position themselves better for a promotion at their firms.