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A generalist has to be knowledgeable in most areas, but possibly expert in none.

The Internal Revenue Service kicked off the 2017 tax season Monday but won’t be able to process some returns until February 15.

President promises a "very major" border tax and said he would cut regulations by 75 percent at a breakfast meeting with business leaders.

The return of the spreadsheet, the triumph of the cloud and other trends to look for in technology for accounting and finance departments.

Accountants beware: Fraudsters are customizing phishing attacks with fake QuickBooks invoices and TurboTax notifications, warns Todd O’Boyle, the co-founder and chief technology officer of malware detection provider Percipient Networks.

Joanne Barry of the New York State Society of CPAs shares a handful of ways accountants can help their country.

A small but growing number of states are looking for taxpayers to supply ID card information as part of their returns.

Tax practitioners may spot a new 16-digit code on clients' W-2s this year, as part of an effort to fight tax-related ID theft.

MyFirmsApp, a U.K.-based technology development company, has gotten the go-ahead to use the technology powering Amazon’s Alexa voice-based assistant to develop artificial intelligence apps for accounting.

The CFA Institute has published a two-part report examining the controversy over non-GAAP financial measures from an investor perspective.