Audit & Accounting

Accounting firms with a burgeoning stable of small-business clients understand their need for attention -- to be both seen and heard.

In the engagement proposal process, the way a firm allocates time could be the difference between winning new business -- or losing out.

Since taxes based on income don't produce as much revenue during a recession as they do during good times, transaction taxes, including sales and use taxes, become even more important to a state's ability to fund its obligations.

An overview of recent accounting firm mergers

The Affordable Care Act is real. It's law. And it's moving forward. That's a fact. And, while so many businesses are figuring out how this change in health insurance law will affect them, many others are doing what Americans do best: figuring out how to profit.

Get to know Darlene Finzer, Accounting Today's inaugural Accountant of the Month

New books, software and hardware of for accountants

Grant Thornton's Stephen Chipman on the new Private Company Council

Does your firm have values that it lives up to? The best ones do

There is a constant topic of conversation both inside firms and at almost every conference: It is the age-old question of partner compensation and "how do you do it."