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Cloud Summit 2014, directed at accounting professionals, CPAs and business owners interested in exploring and implementing virtual financial applications, will be held Sept. 17-19 in San Diego, Calif.

Many individual tax returns select a third-party designee, but even though this designation is widely used, its scope is often misunderstood.

Xero has been a revelation to small and growing businesses that were in need of top-notch small business accounting software.

Organizations will be facing problems finding the right employees and leadership in the years ahead, according to a new report from Deloitte.

Newly anointed "Tonight Show" host Jimmy Fallon is more popular than ever, with western New York CPA firm Lumsden & McCormick supporting the recent "Bring Jimmy Fallon to Buffalo" campaign.

Lois Lerner, who oversaw the Internal Revenue Service’s scrutiny of Tea Party groups, was looking for someone from every branch of government to help resolve the issue that eventually cost her job.

Policy makers on both sides of the partisan divide, from Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew to Mitt Romney’s economic adviser Glenn Hubbard, favor expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit. This rare harmony holds the potential to reshape the debate on bridging the growing opportunity gap.

Cloud migration software provider AppZero announced Tuesday a $3 million round of funding to support its work moving enterprises to the cloud.

Cloud solutions provider Cloud Technology Partners announced the general availability of PaaSLane 2.0, which analyzes Java and .NET application source code to improve cloud readiness and accelerate application migration to the cloud.

The International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation and the International Accounting Standards Board are reaching out to Islamic countries to elicit their support for IFRS, with a working group dedicated to making sure the standards don’t conflict with Sharia law.