Practice Management

Hanna McGlone & Co. has agreed to join Smart Devine.

Angie Grissom, president of The Rainmaker Companies, talks about how accounting firms can be more like successful rock bands, in an interview with managing editor Tamika Cody during Accounting Today's Growth & Profitability Summit in Orlando.

Beck & Co. LLC has agreed to merge with Berdon LLP.

CBIZ Inc. has acquired the non-attest assets of Denver, Co-based Knight Field Fabry LLP.

The American Institute of CPAs has written to the leaders of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee encouraging them to support the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act of 2013, also known as the DATA Act (S. 994), which includes a provision calling for establishment of government-wide financial data standards for federal funds.

A dozen emerging technology companies, including Twitter and Facebook, have enough unused tax breaks for executive stock options to eliminate all income taxes on the next $11.4 billion of U.S. income they collectively earn, according to a new report, giving them a net federal tax cut of $4 billion.

Anonymous visits by government auditors have uncovered accuracy problems with some of the tax returns prepared by volunteers who staff the Internal Revenue Service’s Volunteer Program, according to a new report.

The advocacy group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has filed a rulemaking petition asking the Internal Revenue Service to clarify the regulations for tax-exempt business trade groups organized under Section 501(c)6 of the Tax Code and rein in abuses by them, while also calling on the IRS to investigate one such group, Freedom Partners, which is supported by the conservative Koch brothers who own Koch Industries.

The taxation of damages is a nightmare for taxpayers.

Lionel B. Sanders CPA has merged with the Santa Monica, Calif-based accounting firm Gumbiner Savett Inc.