The Latest

The House Ways and Means Committee has passed a bill that would limit tax breaks for health insurance policies that cover abortions.

Harold S. Wolfson has joined Malden-based firm Rucci, Bardaro & Barrett PC as chief operating officer.

Intuit Inc. and Salesforce.com have formed a strategic alliance that will result in the creation of a new application merging customer relationship and financial management to allow QuickBooks customers to use cloud-based CRM to save time and close more deals.

The American Institute of CPAs and the Society for Human Resource Management have joined up to recognize employers that are contributing to the financial education of their employees.

Nonfarm payroll employment increased by 216,000 in March, and the unemployment rate dipped a tenth of a percent to 8.8 percent, the lowest level in two years, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday.

Recently, a rather heated discussion erupted in the comments section of the Accounting Tomorrow blog - appropriately, over the use of the Internet.

I have a friend, Sarah Smith Robbins, who is simply amazing. For starters, she is the mother of triplets.

GASB PROPOSES HEDGE ACCOUNTING CHANGES

During the financial crisis, many boards of directors showed that they did not fully understand the risks that their institutions were taking. Did this failure of board oversight occur because the directors did not comply with the governance provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act?

Firm management has improved over the past year. I am not referring to the fact that most firms have cut costs and managed head counts better than in prior years. I am referring to the fact that many firms are now focusing on managing to a "shared vision," rather than a "shared services" model where often there is competition for resources, rather than leverage.