Practice Management

Thomson Reuters has introduced Checkpoint Pocket Assistant, a mobile app that helps tax and accounting professionals perform tasks from an Apple iPhone.

Biz2Credit, an online credit provider for small businesses, has launched a partnership program for CPAs and other accountants and tax preparers who refer their small business clients for loans.

Thomson Reuters has integrated the upcoming back-to-school tax holidays into its ONESOURCE Indirect Tax Software.

The chairmen of the House Ways and Means Committee and the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee have written to the head of the Internal Revenue Service about the status of several of the officials who resigned or were placed on administrative leave in the wake of the Tea Party targeting scandal.

Every company in every industry faces some degree of risk. But some risks are greater than others, particularly sensitivity risk (related to external factors like commodity prices and competition), which accounts for about half of all risk incurred by any company.

The Internal Revenue Service spent over $4.8 million in fiscal year 2011 and $4.7 million in fiscal year 2012 for executive travel, according to a new government report.

Coaching and consulting firm PartnersCoach has introduced a Partner-Pipeline program that provides a developmental approach to building future leaders within accounting firms.

A pair of lawmakers plan to introduce bipartisan legislation in the House that would provide permanent tax incentives to family farmers, ranchers and other land owners who choose not to develop their land and instead preserve their property for conservation.

A pair of congressional subcommittee chairmen are asking the head of the Internal Revenue Service about a recent report that the agency accidentally posted thousands of Social Security numbers on the Internet.

Prager Metis CPAs LLC has merged with the Springfield, N.J. –based Goldfinger Block Glickenhaus Dinar LLP. The deal closed on July 1, 2013.