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Here are ten things in technology that happened last month and how they affect your firm and your clients. Did you miss them?

Illinois CPA Society holds its 7th annual CPA Day of Service

Thomson Reuters has introduced a certification program for practitioners who want to offer retirement planning services to their clients.

This was not written by me, but by James A. Koerber, CPA from Hattiesburg, Miss. This was his address at the swearing in ceremony for new CPAs in Mississippi.

Nonprofit accounting software developer AccuFund Inc. announced the dates of a set of new user group meetings.

A new IRS test program doubles the dollar limit for people to more easily set up payment plans for their tax debt.

Our weekly roundup of tax-related investment strategies and news your clients may be thinking about.

A roundup of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

Accounting firm consultant Kristen Rampe has released a new report on how CPA firms can address the staffing shortage afflicting so many firms today.

Joel Sinkin of Transition Advisors explains in this video why valuations of accounting firms that are being bought and sold are on the decline.

Imagine a partner announces their retirement and your firm buys out the equity stake. Five years later, the partner is still working with and controlling the same client relationships as always. Worse yet, the “retired” partner is getting more and more difficult to work with every day but has been fully paid. What do you do?

The American Institute of CPAs sent a letter Friday to the Internal Revenue Service with 40 recommendations that it wants the IRS to consider when drafting guidance on a new regime for auditing large, complex partnerships.

A roundup of recent expansions, additions, new services and other news from firms across the country.

A roundup of recent hires, promotions, awards and other personnel news from firms across the country.

TransferMate Global Payments has launched a cross-border platform for accounting practices to provide outsourced payment solutions to clients.

The Internal Revenue Service added new data elements last tax season to its computer system filters to catch suspected cases of identity theft-related tax fraud totaling $4.1 billion, according to a new report, but it posted information about the secret data elements on its public website IRS.gov before removing it.

Sourcery, a digital payments and commerce platform for the food and hospitality industry, has launched a new accounts receivable solution.

Police in India have raided nine call centers in Mumbai and arrested 70 people who were calling phone numbers in the United States pretending to be Internal Revenue Service demanding payment for taxes.

A new question surrounding Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s business empire emerged recently, thanks to the publication of a 1995 New York state tax document: How could he have had a $916 million personal loss from troubled ventures that burned his creditors?

The Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants (PICPA) announced this week that over 1,200 CPAs across the state donated their time to local communities during the Institute’s second annual Week of Service this past September.