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McGladrey & Pullen mourned the death of retired partner Ray Krause, who spent about four decades with the firm.

KPMG plans to bring nearly 375 jobs to its new office in Tysons Corner, Va., just outside Washington, D.C.

The American Institute of CPAs and the National Society of Accountants are voicing their opposition to a provision in the tax extenders and unemployment legislation that could increase the self-employment taxes paid by some professional services firms organized as S corporations.

The Internal Revenue Service has awarded a five-year contract to consulting firm Accenture to design, implement and operate its tax return preparer registration program.

IMGCAP(1)] The number one source of new business for accountants is referrals. But when I ask partners of CPA firms how many really good or “A” referral sources they have, they can often count the number on one hand. That means that even if they get one good referral per referral source per year, that’s less than five per year. That’s certainly not enough to sustain, let alone grow a practice.

.A new set of standards will allow accountants to explain exactly why their independence may have been impaired when performing compilation services for clients.

The House approved the Small Business Jobs Tax Relief Act of 2010 on Tuesday by a bipartisan majority of 247-170.

Trading in the shares of a British accounting firm, Vantis, has been suspended on the London-based AIM exchange after the firm admitted that it may not be able to continue trading on a going concern basis.

Employers with at least 500 employees remain hesitant to adopt automatic enrollment features in their retirement savings plans and automatically enroll their employees, according to a new survey by AARP.

Americans’ level of confidence in their overall financial security held steady this month, according to a new survey, but a more optimistic near-term view of their finances was offset by continued uncertainty over longer-range issues.