Practice Management

The IRS has begun accepting applications and renewals of the Preparer Tax Identification Numbers required of professional tax preparers.

A measure that would put the brakes on the Department of Labor's proposal to establish a fiduciary standard for advisors to retirement plans was approved by the U.S. House of Representatives in a largely party-line vote on Tuesday.

PricewaterhouseCoopers and Booz & Co. have signed a conditional agreement to merge, increasing the Big Four firm's presence in the consulting business.

Caesars Entertainment Corp. was cited by the Internal Revenue Service for Bank Secrecy Act violations, according to a letter from U.S. investigators notifying the company of a money-laundering probe.

At this point, most companies and even accounting firms have a profile on some sort of review site like Yelp, CitySearch or Google Local.

The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service have released a document containing proposed guidance for foreign financial institutions as the next step in implementing the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act in an effort to combat offshore tax evasion.

This month, software vendor partner veteran Terry Petrzelka looks at where smaller consulting firms fit into a rapidly changing publisher/partner world, where their future lays, as well as how firms of all sizes may better use social media.

Accounting firm technology “pioneers” can generate higher profits and revenue, according to a new study by CCH.

The Internal Revenue Service needs to improve the system it uses to assess the quality of the correspondence audits it conducts with taxpayers as the IRS’s own quality review system failed to detect errors in more than half of the IRS’s penalty determinations, according to a new report.

Weaknesses in the controls over asset management at the Internal Revenue Service leave the IRS’s information technology assets vulnerable to loss, according to a new government report.