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Tech company Roper Technologies has signed a deal to buy enterprise software and solutions provider Deltek.

Highlights of some of our favorite tax-related blogs from the past week.

Accountants need to watch out for the wide-ranging impact of blockchain, a technology popularized by digital currencies such as bitcoin.

For professionals in the accounting and finance professions, any changes to accounting standards usually lead to some apprehension as these rules require companies to make key adjustments, expand disclosure practices and implement new procedures for recording various financial metrics.

Blucora announced a partnership with online portfolio advisor Financial Guard to provide Blucora’s TaxAct customers with an integrated, automated advisory platform.

Leaders of the Financial Accounting Standards Board and the International Accounting Standards Board pledged Tuesday to continue their work together, even after completing their major convergence projects for harmonizing standards.

Brixey & Meyer has expanded its presence in Cincinnati by acquiring a second CPA firm in the area, Kamphaus, Henning & Hood.

Internal Auditor magazine recently announced their "Emerging Leaders" for 2016. The 15 candidates, all 30 years old or under, "share a passion for adapting to the rapidly evolving challenges faced by internal audit," per the publication.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board released a report Tuesday on its 2015 inspection of KPMG LLP, finding problems with 20 of the 49 companies whose audits by the firm were inspected.

BDO Consulting has expanded its forensic technology services practice by adding the e-Discovery practice of Key Discovery, a litigation support service provider based in Boston.

According to a recent survey via British finance career resource WikiJob, over 70% of respondents pursuing a career in accounting were concerned about automation reducing their professional roles over the next two decades.

The CFO Alliance has released a study examining the compensation programs offered to CEOs, CFOs, controllers, accounting managers and marketing and sales executives at mid-market companies.

The American Institute of CPAs is asking the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department to withdraw and, if necessary, re-propose their rules for the valuation of interests in corporations and partnerships for estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer tax purposes.

When I was in boot camp or basic training there were four platoons in my company, each with their own drill sergeant. Additionally there were other sergeants in our group who seemed to be specialists in certain areas. Obviously we got to know all of them.

Officials from the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Center for Audit Quality discussed the effort to rein in the use of non-GAAP financial measures during an American Institute of CPAs conference Monday.

The Virginia Society of Certified Public Accountants (VSCPA) held their 2016 VSCPA Leadership Academy last month, from Nov. 14–16, at the CPA Center in Glen Allen. Thirty-two young CPAs in all were selected to attend the yearly event.

CPA.com has added Expensify, an expense management software, to its roster of automated solutions for CPA firms.

This year, why not take a quick look around your office and see if there aren’t a few gifts that you’d like to see that are office or profession-related.

Steps to take before the New Year for a better tax return in 2017

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board said Deloitte’s Brazil firm will pay an $8 million settlement and its Mexico firm will pay a $750,000 settlement to resolve auditing violations.