Practice Management

The reasons to begin conversations with both current and potential clients with an emphasis on report writers are more compelling than ever, particularly as this technology has become more available and easier for small businesses to use and deploy.

Ed Mendlowitz, a partner at WithumSmith+Brown, discusses how small CPA firms can benefit from conferences like Accounting Today's recent Growth & Profitability Summit in Orlando, in an interview with managing editor Tamika Cody.

The Supreme Court held that the 40 percent gross valuation misstatement penalty applies to overstated basis where partnerships were shams, so no partner could legitimately claim a basis in the partnership interest greater than zero.

Top 100 CPA firm Grassi & Co. has officially launched Grassi Technology Consultants, a new subsidiary that moves the firm further towards technology consulting and potentially larger clients, but away from reselling.

The Senate Finance Committee has scheduled a hearing next Tuesday to consider the nomination of John Koskinen as the next Internal Revenue Service commissioner as the agency seeks to emerge from a series of recent scandals that have prompted the departures of a number of high-ranking officials.

Big data and bad data are proving to be a big challenge for tax departments at major corporations, according to a new survey that found them spending a disproportionate amount of time consolidating and gathering information, reconciling it, and detecting and correcting errors.

On top of the other problems associated with the troubled rollout of the federal government’s online health insurance exchange, the Internal Revenue Service is now being urged to strengthen the security and anti-fraud protections for the tax credits it will be providing to help taxpayers afford the cost of the insurance premiums.

Open-source ERP and CRM software maker xTuple has released xTupleCommerce – version 2.0 of its eCommerce Web portal – and acquired Web consultancy Artsmith Media to support customer demand for the offering.

Is reality what something actually is or what people perceive it to be? Jack Welch of GE fame once said that reality is “seeing the world as it is rather than as you wish it were.”

The U.S. Supreme Court stayed out of the multibillion-dollar fight over Internet sales taxes, leaving intact a New York law that forces Amazon.com Inc. to collect money from customers in that state.