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Grant Thornton appoints infrastructure advisory lead; Centage announces interim CEO; and other recent hires, promotions and personnel news from firms across the country.

Next year, the association celebrates its 20th anniversary.

FloQast adds new features to close management software, and Chrome Winner wins innovation award from a partner.

AAFCPAs celebrates Giving Tuesday; SAX establishes nonprofit award; and more news from CPA offices across the country.

The Big Four firm will accept the "Spirit of the Founders" award for its philanthropic efforts.

A provision in the tax bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives would only intensify the housing crunch in the nation’s fourth-largest city—and others across the U.S.—by crippling affordable housing construction.

As the tax debate hits its latest crescendo in Washington, TV ads trying to influence the biggest rewrite of the code in three decades have increasingly targeted states with wavering Republicans, including Wisconsin and Maine.

The Treasury Department’s inspector general is examining whether political considerations interfered with Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s promised analysis of the Republican tax proposal.

The Senate held a round of marathon votes Friday and ultimately passed the bill overnight. Here are the latest developments, updated throughout the day.

RSM International has launched RSM Canada, with 37 partners and nearly 300 professionals in Toronto, with plans to extend its reach across the country.

As if the Republican tax reform plan wasn’t bad enough already for taxpayers, the latest scheme to win over more votes of a precarious Senate majority involves adding a “trigger” to raise certain taxes if there isn’t enough economic growth to cover the $1.4 trillion cost of the bill, though the Senate's parliamentarian appears to have just shot down that proposal.

A push by some Republican senators to ward off future deficits by tucking a potential corporate tax increase into their tax-overhaul bill would set up a kind of economic booby trap—putting the GOP’s much-desired growth at risk, according to a half-dozen economists, lobbyists and tax experts.

The tax reform bills passed by the House, and soon to be passed by the Senate, have many similarities. And you can count on measures that are the same in both bills to end up in the final version to be signed by the President.

In the rush to borrow before the Republican tax bill reshapes the debt market, states and municipalities are paying up. The biggest spree of debt issuance in more than a decade has pushed up borrowing costs and eroded returns in the $3.8 trillion municipal-debt market.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued a notice providing more time for partnerships, real estate mortgage investment conduits and some other types of businesses to file their returns.

Share prices continue to decline steeply after public companies file for an extension with the Securities and Exchange Commission on their financial statements, according to a new academic study.

The American Institute of CPAs’ Auditing Standards Board has released three exposure drafts proposing ways to improve the usefulness of the auditor’s report, in response to recent standards from the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board and the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board.

Today, at many smaller firms, client service partners generate, on average, about 1,500 to 1,600 billable hours per annum.

Outgoing Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said the central bank would welcome and support a faster expansion of the economy stemming from changes in the tax code, provided it was the right kind of growth.