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As the Big Four invest heavily in the technology, accountants are advised to take note and understand how blockchain will change the profession.

The Internal Revenue Service issued a warning Thursday cautioning taxpayers and tax professionals about a new scam revolving around the Electronic Federal Tax Payment System, in which criminals are calling innocent taxpayers demanding they make an immediate tax payment through a prepaid debit card.

Google should be let off the hook from a 1.12 billion-euro ($1.3 billion) tax recovery order in France even though fiscal authorities in the country are seeking to recoup that amount, according to an adviser at the Paris administrative court.

In a keynote with institute chair Kimberly Ellison-Taylor, the AICPA prez says accounting will be unrecognizable in five years.

The new tool features multiple print layouts and MICR encoding capabilities.

Academic research finds that readable financial disclosures help not only investors, but companies as well.

Asian-Americans and the EITC; trusting the IRS; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

The American Institute of CPAs has written a letter to the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department asking them to postpone the effective date of the centralized partnership audit regime for one year until the end of 2018.

Thomson Reuters has begun providing a certificate program that explains the essentials for practitioners who perform compilation, review and preparation engagements, and how to prepare for peer review.

Marcum LLP has named its longtime managing partner, Jeffrey M. Weiner, as chairman and CEO, and David Bukzin as vice chairman.

KPMG entered into an agreement with the U.S. Department of Labor to resolve allegations of hiring discrimination against 60 Asian candidates applying for associate auditor jobs in the firm’s Short Hills, N.J., office.

The Internal Revenue Service has supplemented its online tax account tool with some new self-service features for taxpayers and their preparers.

President Donald Trump won’t veto a tax bill even if it provides the wealthiest Americans with a tax cut, according to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.

Fifteen years after passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, companies are still finding the costs of compliance heavy in terms of both dollars and man hours, according to a new report.

A Grant Thornton firm in the West Indies has merged in a former BDO firm to expand its presence in the Caribbean.

The Internal Revenue Service has released a revenue procedure that offers an easier way to get an extension of time to file a return to opt for portability of the deceased spousal unused exclusion amount.

BDO’s global network of accounting firms has named Keith Farlinger as CEO of BDO International, succeeding Martin van Roekel, on Nov. 1, 2017.

Accountants can build workpapers by linking from the Microsoft spreadsheet platform to data from the audit software’s trial balance section.

Kate Barton, Americas vice chair of tax services for the Americas Tax practice at Ernst & Young, discusses the contrasting tax reform plans of House Republicans and President Trump, and what’s likely to be in the final bill.

Multinationals are in line for a windfall from President Donald Trump’s call to cut the tax rate on U.S. companies’ stockpiled overseas earnings, but a select few would do better than others.