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Burning the midnight oil is about to pay off for millions of U.S. millennials.

It’s that time of the year again—Accounting Today’s VAR 100 list, ranking the top value-added resellers of accounting and accounting-related software by revenue.

CPAs with technology: You have the power to change your customers’ lives. Now, don’t worry, I’m not about to get all preachy on you. It’s actually the title of a white paper I wrote with Fundbox. Fundbox, if you’re not familiar, is an online financial solution that helps small businesses fill in their cash flow gaps.

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

The leasing standard that the Financial Accounting Standards Board released in February is going to require some extra training for businesses from their accountants and could lead to some re-evaluations of clients’ leasing obligations.

Auditors face numerous challenges when it comes to helping clients understand financial reporting issues related to accounting for intangible assets acquired in a business combination.

The Senate Finance Committee held a hearing Tuesday on integrating the corporate and individual tax codes, specifically in terms of allowing corporations to deduct the dividends they pay shareholders from their taxes.

The Tax Court has decided in favor of a taxpayer who insisted her hair-braiding business was not a hobby.

SAP introduced SAP RealSpend, a mobile app providing visibility and access to up-to-the-minute budget and spending information.

A man who claimed to have stolen former Presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s tax returns from PricewaterhouseCoopers and threatened to expose them has been convicted on extortion and fraud charges.

Rep. Sander Levin, D-Mich., the ranking Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee, introduced legislation to limit two tax strategies used by some foreign-controlled U.S. multinational corporations, known as “hopscotching” and “de-controlling.”

Timely and meaningful access to the Internal Revenue Service is what is most important to taxpayers and tax preparers, according to Troy K. Lewis, chair of the American Institute of CPAs’ Tax Executive Committee.

The House passed bipartisan legislation Monday to prevent taxpayer identity theft and help victims whose tax refunds have been stolen by identity thieves. The bill was co-sponsored by a CPA turned lawmaker whose own identity was stolen last tax season.

Many years ago, a seasoned CPA told me that providing payroll is like running a dairy farm—they both require a great deal of repetitive, day in, day out chores.

The CPA Consultants’ Alliance has published a new book to help the CPA profession close the divide between current and emerging leaders.

Tim Gearty of Becker Professional Education explores in this video what Millennials want in the accounting jobs where they work.

Despite comprising nearly half of our country’s population, women hold significantly fewer positions of leadership than their male counterparts. This is across the board, spanning both the public and private sectors.

In a sign of improved business hiring, 73 percent of accountants said their business clients are planning to increase or maintain their number of employees over the next 12 months, while only 5 percent indicated their business clients plan to reduce their number of employees during that period.

Someone has to be the boss. When the founder is active, he or she is usually the boss. There are exceptions, but I want to talk about parents who step aside to have their children run the business, particularly where there is more than one child working in the business.

U.S. companies are paying among the highest corporation taxes in the world at a rate well above the global average, according to a new study by the accounting and consulting firm network UHY.