Practice Management

  • The general administrator role takes manyforms: office, human resources, marketing or IT manager; chief operating officer; firm administrator - and even managing partner. But firms, especially smaller ones, should consider a consolidation of these operations to save the necessary partner time to grow their practices.

    February 1
  • Just before the New Year, the Internal Revenue Service released much-anticipated temporary and proposed regulations on the capitalization of tangible property (so-called "repair regs").

    February 1
  • M&A

    ALBERTA

    February 1
  • M&A

    On a Friday morning in early December, some 150 accountants and staff boarded a Manhattan-bound R train. It's doubtful any of their fellow commuters guessed they were all from the CPA firm of WithumSmith+Brown.

    February 1
  • For many mid-market accounting firms, the status and activities of the Big Four are of passing interest, but not much more. but EOS accountants LLP has charted an innovative and successful growth strategy by linking with the big Four and other firms.

    February 1
  • IRS BOOSTS AUDITS OF HIGH-INCOME TAXPAYERS

    February 1
  • National Taxpayer Advocate Nina E. Olson's annual report to Congress highlighted the combination of an expanding IRS workload and declining resources as the most serious problem facing taxpayers.

    February 1
  • And so firms of all sizes are engaging in some form of social media efforts, which can range anywhere from gaining basic knowledge of all the available tools and sites, to hiring specific personnel or even having everyone in the firm contribute to social media initiatives.

    February 1
  • The Internal Revenue Service needed to put the brakes on its tax refunds this tax season when newly installed filters to prevent tax fraud and identity theft held up processing for a week or more.

    February 1
  • The Internal Revenue Service and the Justice Department said Tuesday they have conducted a massive nationwide sweep to nab identity theft fraudsters as part of a stepped-up effort against tax refund fraud.

    January 31