Subject Root Tag

Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. just gave conventional financial measures a new prominence in its latest quarterly report. It wasn’t pretty.

Accounting firms need to rethink the roles and expectations of their partners, according to industry consultant Allan Koltin – and changes to traditional partner compensation models can help.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has barred a former corporate vice president and a former controller for false accounting at an electronics company.

The sun has set on Tax Day 2016. Another season older and what did you learn? And what will do differently next year?

A study based on 13 years of tax data finds that most millionaires don’t move cross-country just to avoid a tax bill.

The Accounting MOVE Project has released its annual list of the Best CPA Firms for women.

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

The Big Four accounting firms have come roaring back into the consulting field in the years after the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 forced three of them to shed their consulting units and now dominate the U.S. consulting market, according to a new report.

The World Gold Council, a market development organization for the gold industry, has some ideas about developing a common accounting framework for gold that could be used by central banks in countries around the world.

The recent AICPA/NASBA CPE Standards Exposure Draft comment period ended on April 30. This was actually a “re-exposure” because of the volume and nature of comments received on the original exposure draft. But it really isn’t clear what these proposed revised CPE standards are trying to accomplish.

The Internal Revenue Service’s oversight of the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program remains minimal at best, despite a critical report last year by the Government Accountability Office, according to a new GAO report.

The Internal Revenue Service failed to identify and assist all taxpayers who may have been affected by the data breach in its online “Get Transcript” application, according to a new government report.

The Internal Revenue Service has ruled that fines issued by the brokerage industry’s self-regulatory body, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, or FINRA, are not tax deductible.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued final and temporary regulations to curb the use of spinoffs of corporate assets into real estate investment trusts, or REITs, to reduce taxes.

As Ireland braces itself for a European Union order to claw back unpaid taxes from technology giant Apple Inc., government officials have warned Finance Minister Michael Noonan that he would face two crucial questions once the decision comes.

When it comes to picking a cloud provider, you should ask some tough questions, an industry expert suggests.

The costs of the finance and accounting function at many companies are expected to climb in the next few years, according to a new survey.

The U.S. Tax Court gave a taxpayer extra time to file a petition after a winter storm forced the closure one day last year of all federal offices, including the Tax Court.

Summer jobs are an excellent opportunity to learn responsibility in the areas of work ethic, time management, and financial responsibility.

Practice management software developer OfficeTools is partnering with the cloud services company IVDesk.