Financial Planning

The Internal Revenue Service is giving financial institutions a break when it comes to notifying owners of individual retirement accounts about taking their required minimum distributions after a new law increased the age for taking RMDs from 70½ to 72.

Next time you meet with a client, instead of just making small talk or asking, “How’s the family doing?” take it a step further.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin weighed in on the debate about a carbon tax in Davos, saying technological developments would make it redundant.

The American Institute of CPAs’ Q4 2019 Personal Financial Satisfaction index (PFSi) has reached a new high for the seventh time in the last ten quarters after plummeting to record lows in the third quarter of last year, thanks to a late 2019 surge in the stock market.

At first, FloQast focused on smaller businesses, but today its software serves companies ranging in size from 200 to 10,000 employees.

A group of international accounting organizations is calling for improved reporting and action on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals to hit the ambitious goals set for 2030.

They call themselves the Patriotic Millionaires, and they say with straight faces it’s time the ultra-affluent kick in more to Uncle Sam.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has issued a standards update aimed at clarifying the interaction between the rules related to equity securities, equity method investments and certain derivatives.

The Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department are offering a safe harbor to provide relief to taxpayers who borrowed money to attend a nonprofit or for-profit school and had their student loan debts discharged.

BlackRock, the world’s biggest fund manager, said Tuesday that it plans to put sustainability at the center of its investment strategy and it will push companies to improve their climate risk disclosures.