Practice Management

There was lots of vendor and consultant news over the past week, but overall we want to know what’s up with all the funding going into cloud accounting software, and where exactly does Intuit factor in?

The majority of the U.S. government, including the U.S. Tax Court, shut down on October 1. Late this past Wednesday, Congress voted to reopen the government through January 15 of next year. Despite the shutdown, the statutory deadline of 90 days for filing a petition in the Tax Court cannot be extended. Yet during the shutdown, the Tax Court was not accepting hand delivery and very likely was not opening its mail.

O’Connor Davies LLP and Fazio, Mannuzza, Roche, Tankel, LaPilusa LLC have agreed to merge. The combination is set to go into effect Jan. 1, 2014 and will operate under the O’Connor Davies name.

The Internal Revenue Service has delayed the 2014 season for renewing Preparer Tax Identification Numbers because of the government shutdown that ended last night.

After the partisan passions and heated rhetoric, the disruptions of a government shutdown and displays of dysfunction, Congress did what it could have done weeks ago: voted to fund the government and lift the debt limit.

When it comes to tax disputes, there are three different forums in which to bring a lawsuit, and sometimes the choice makes a difference in the result.

Thomson Reuters’ WorldTrade Executive brand has released the latest edition of Global Transfer Pricing Solutions, a book that covers regulatory changes and provides analysis in the field of transfer pricing.

BeachFleischman chief marketing officer Eric Majchrzak discusses some of the biggest challenges that marketers for accounting firms are facing, in an interview with Accounting Today senior editor Danielle Lee.

Grant Thornton has ramped up its expansion efforts in Japan, Italy, Paraguay, Bangladesh and Ethiopia.

U.S. Senate leaders are rushing to lock up an agreement to end the fiscal impasse, stepping in after House Republicans’ last-minute plan to avert a U.S. government default collapsed.