Financial Planning

IMGCAP(1)][IMGCAP(2)]In the last month, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has dropped by more than 10 percent, and that significant change has investors and market participants on edge, concerned with what stock market volatility will do next and what repercussions it will have on the economy more generally.

Registered investment advisory-focused consulting firm RIA In A Box has introduced a bookkeeping service.

IMGCAP(1)]The SEC's proposed changes to broker-dealer financial reporting regulations could have a major impact on auditing firms that service broker-dealers.

IMGCAP(1)]Limited capital is a reality of business.

IMGCAP(1)]If there ever were a “good year to die,” that would have been 2010.

Non-GAAP earnings numbers are better at predicting a company’s future earnings potential, but they are more subject to opportunistic manipulation and insider trading, a new study finds.

The American Institute of CPAs has written a letter to the Internal Revenue Service asking the IRS to extend the due dates for filing the estate tax form for last year and this year and for a new form for allocating the increase in basis for property acquired from a decedent.

BNA forecasts that wages in the private sector will begin to grow by early 2012.

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s new whistleblower program took effect Friday, and the SEC has created a new Web page where people can report a violation of the federal securities laws and apply for a financial award.

Rising home prices, combined with a slight improvement in real wages, have led Deloitte to post an increase in its Consumer Spending Index in July for the first time since January.