Practice Management

Microsoft Dynamics and Intacct partner Massey Consulting will be launching an educational webcast series aimed at helping CPAs to better utilize social media.

Top 100 Firm Wipfli LLP and Minnesota-based Eikill & Schilling Ltd., have agreed to pair up.

People who are interested in learning forensic accounting and economic crime investigation have found it has become much easier to do today.

House Republicans, rejecting President Barack Obama’s demand for higher tax rates, countered with a $2.2 trillion deficit-cutting plan that would trim Medicare and Social Security and cap tax deductions for top earners.

Accounting and advisory firm Marcum LLP has introduced the Marcum Commercial Construction Index, a quarterly index that will track the performance of the U.S. commercial construction industry.

Doeren Mayhew PC and the Houston-based CPA consulting firm MFR PC agreed to merge. MFR will immediately take on the Doeren Mayhew name.

Payroll and human resource services provider Paychex Inc. has purchased expense report automation product maker ExpenseWire from Rearden Commerce Inc. for an undisclosed sum.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said she would try to use a procedure known as a discharge petition to bring a Senate-passed bill for extending the middle-class tax cuts to the floor of the House.

Four trends to put the 'service' back in professional services

Large whistleblower awards have been making headlines lately. News of a record $108 million award paid out by the Internal Revenue Service in September, followed by media coverage of $38 million and $2 million awards only weeks later, seem almost more akin to reports on lottery jackpots than informant compensation.