The Latest

IMGCAP(1)]Credit scores have become a major factor for consumers and businesses that seek financing ranging from mortgages, car and student loans to business credit lines and bank loans.

For all the talk of corporate tax reform to lower the rate in the U.S., many companies have long been taking matters into their own hands, paying taxes at rates far lower than the statutory level of 35 percent.

The Senate approved an amendment Wednesday to repeal the expanded 1099 information reporting requirements in the health care reform law.

A coalition of 15 national organizations urged the Senate Judiciary Committee to keep a provision in S. 23, The Patent Reform Act of 2011, which would stop tax strategy patents. The bill goes to mark-up on Feb. 3.

The Internal Revenue Service warned small businesses and their tax preparers Wednesday that a group of tax return forms should not be filed until it is ready to start processing them.

The focus of internal audit activities is expected to change significantly in the next five years, according to a new study.

Accounting and advisory firm Baker Tilly has joined the NetSuite Solution Provider program and will use the Web-based service as part of its own cloud computing consulting practice.

The Internal Revenue Service’s efforts to do more oversight of paid tax preparers will not be fully operational until 2014 and needs to happen sooner, according to a new government report.

Organizations are expected to invest more money to protect personal information in response to increased government regulation and enforcement and to stem the rising tide of risk, according to a new report released Wednesday by Ernst & Young.

Rebecca Ryan, founder of Next Generation Consulting, tells Accounting Tomorrow readers about the "candy store" that awaits them as early adopters of future trends. Also, what the acronym STEEP should mean to you.