Daniel Hood

The Social Security Administration announced that benefits will increase 0.3 percent in 2017.

Transparency is one of the prime hallmarks of the members of Accounting Today’s Best Firms to Work For – and the numbers prove it.

The trustees of the IFRS Foundation, which oversees of the International Accounting Standards Board, have appointed Sue Lloyd as vice chair of the board.

Big Four firm Ernst & Young has agreed to pay more than $11.8 million to the Securities and Exchange Commission for failing to detect fraud in its audits of an oil services company.

Welcome to 20 Days to a Better Firm! This series of short articles will share strategies on recruiting, retention and growth from the members of Accounting Today’s 2016 Best Firms to Work For list.

Nonprofit software developer Blackbaud is predicting record donations on “#GivingTuesday,” the global day of giving that takes place on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving.

Baldwin CPAs is expanding in Central Kentucky by merging in Humphrey & Co. PLLC in Lexington.

The Securities and Exchange Commission reported that it has filed 868 enforcement actions related to financial reporting misconduct in fiscal year 2016 – a new single-year high.

Almost half of accountants think that control of the Senate matters more to the profession than who wins the presidential race, according to a new Accounting Today survey.

Top 100 Firm Reinsel Kuntz Lesher LLP has acquired Radnor, Pa.-based GTM Risk Management.

Nonprofit accounting software developer AccuFund Inc. announced the dates of a set of new user group meetings.

TransferMate Global Payments has launched a cross-border platform for accounting practices to provide outsourced payment solutions to clients.

Growth at accounting firms with over $2 million in revenue averaged 8.1 percent in 2015, according to the just-released 2016 Rosenberg Survey.

The Financial Reporting Executive Committee of the American Institute of CPAs has issued seven working drafts covering issues related to revenue recognition.

Big Four firm EY announced that it expects to hire over 15,000 new employees in the U.S. over its 2017 fiscal year, which started July 1.

Big Four accounting network PwC reported total global gross revenues of U.S. $35.9 billion for the fiscal year that ended June 30, an increase of over 7 percent.

Accounting Today announced the members of its 2016 Class of the Managing Partner Elite.

The IRS recorded two violations of its Fair Tax Collection Practices in 2015, though as many as a dozen additional cases with potential violations were not tracked, according to a recent report.

The owner of a Houston-based business has pleaded guilty in a scheme that involved $13 million in false invoicing.

The profession’s leaders share why its best days may lie ahead of it