Practice Management

Nanavaty, Nanavaty & Davenport LLP, a CPA and business advisory firm based in Newtown, Conn., has merged in Ronald C. Chickering’s CPA firm, effective Nov. 1.

Wild, Maney & Resnick LLP has merged Stephen W. Irwin & Company CPAs into its firm in Long Island, effective Nov. 1.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued a notice exempting enrolled retirement plan agents from obtaining a Preparer Tax Identification Number if they only prepare Form 5300 and 5500 series returns.

A group of Democrats on the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee has introduced a bill to extend federal unemployment insurance through 2012 and provide tax relief to employers in states with outstanding UI loans.

Cloud accounting and finance education and advocacy are the goals behind the newly formed Cloud Accounting Institute, a group launched by Microsoft Dynamics GP and Intacct reseller and CPA Lindy Antonelli.

All-female CPA firm Domachowski Kempisty & Salvatore has joined Tronconi Segarra & Associates, offering a new option for companies seeking a larger regional CPA firm in the upstate New York area.

The 280 most profitable U.S. corporations are sheltering half their profits from federal income taxes, and 30 of them paid less than zero in the last three years, according to a new study.

IMGCAP(1)]Accounting firms typically have multiple partners, some of whom may want to retire or move on in the near future, and others who want to stay longer.

Greatland, a provider of W-2 and 1099 tax information reporting software, has issued a guide to help tax preparers navigate the tax changes enacted into law this past year.

The Internal Revenue Service needs to do a better job of managing the credit cards used by employees in the IRS’s Small Business/Self-Employed Division when they are visiting gas stations to enforce fuel excise tax laws.