Financial Planning

Despite the slowdown this year of the economic recovery, financial professionals surveyed by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and the Institute of Management Accountants believe that business conditions in the U.S. are improving, but they worry about conditions abroad.

A pair of experts from accounting firm Rothstein Kass have helped write a new book that offers an introductory guide to the capital markets.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has voted to require national securities exchanges and the Financial Institution Regulatory Authority to establish a market-wide consolidated audit trail to enhance the ability of regulators to monitor and analyze trading activity.

For Americans long subject to the complexities and confusions of the Internal Revenue Code, it may come as a shock to find that some believe the U.S. to be a tax haven.

An eye-opening report sheds a harsh light on the growing trend of sales of property tax liens to unscrupulous profiteers, all too often forcing the elderly and impoverished out of their homes due to outstanding tax debts.

Capital markets executives at leading investment banks have conflicting views on the recently enacted JOBS Act, according to a new study by accounting and consulting firm BDO USA LLP.

The decision of the Supreme Court on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is not going to make our conversations with our clients any simpler, even if it resolves some of the overall economic uncertainty that has made these conversations so difficult of late.

The Internal Revenue Service’s art appraisal experts are not subject to either a comprehensive quality review program or continuing education requirements specifically devoted to appraising art, according to a new government report.

Retiring Baby Boomers are driving development of new financial products

The Internal Revenue Service said Tuesday that it plans to help U.S. citizens who reside in foreign countries, catch up with their tax-filing obligations and offer assistance to those with foreign retirement plans.