Practice Management

When coaching accounting firms on crafting an industry niche-driven growth strategy, there are three critical questions that we work together to answer. The first step is to assess how well aligned your firm is with the industry.

Despite being highly sophisticated and capable, ERP systems are so often under-optimized and not used to their maximum potential, either due to busy CFO leadership, expensive consulting costs, and the never-ending budget constraints on IT investments.

Audit and risk management product maker ACL has signed a definitive agreement to purchase The Prodigy Group, a Singapore-based software reseller and consulting services provider focused on audit, compliance, and risk management products.

The IRS has lost several cases this year when taxpayers, who lacked good documents, or any documents, testified about the facts and were believed by the Tax Court.

The Internal Revenue Service said Friday that it is delaying the planned retirement of its Disclosure Authorization and Electronic Account Resolution online applications for three weeks.

David Weiner, CEO of Microsoft Dynamics partner UXC Eclipse USA, explains how being a technology consultant has changed drastically in the last 25 years and being a VAR is more about service than software than ever.

Software partner veteran Terry Petrzelka, now a valued advisor and consultant to vendors and resellers discusses the top concerns for accounting technology consultants in this monthly Q&A series.

The Internal Revenue Service is auditing dozens of tax-exempt bond-financed jails, particularly in border states, and suggesting in some cases that, if the jails hold significant amounts of federal inmates, the bonds are no longer tax-exempt and are instead taxable private-activity bonds, sources said Thursday.

Americans renouncing U.S. citizenship surged sixfold in the second quarter from a year earlier as the government prepares to introduce tougher asset-disclosure rules.

Check out the digital edition of the August 2013 issue of Accounting Today.