Practice Management

Transition Advisors president Joel Sinkin discusses how firms can overcome the obstacles they may encounter when they enter the M&A process, in an interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Daniel Hood.

New York’s top banking regulator is investigating whether Credit Suisse Group AG’s private banking practices resulted in the evasion of state taxes, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.

The Internal Revenue Service paid out $53 million in whistleblower awards last year, a steep decline from the $125 million paid to whistleblowers in 2012, according to an annual report by the IRS Whistleblower Office.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP’s acquisition of consulting firm Booz & Co., completed this week, has U.S. regulators eyeing the potential for conflicts of interest in the auditing industry—again.

Some of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

In my previous article, I discussed mandatory CPE. Today I am writing about non-mandatory courses: those covering practice management.

Taxpayers who make cash contributions on or before April 14, 2014, for Philippines typhoon relief can get an immediate tax benefit by choosing to claim them on their 2013 returns, according to the Internal Revenue Service.

The Internal Revenue Service said Friday that victims of last month’s mudslides and flooding in Washington state will have until Oct. 15 to file their returns and pay any taxes due.

The Internal Revenue Service is not adequately performing the job of managing its mainframe software licenses, according to a report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

Only 33 percent of small businesses employ a bookkeeper, according to a survey by Palo Alto Software, and an additional 50 percent say they also do not plan to hire one this year.