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The International Accounting Standards Board issued the long-awaited lease accounting standard that it has been developing for over a decade with the Financial Accounting Standards Board, which is also expected to release its version of the standard early this year.

Swindoll, Janzen, Hawk & Loyd LLC, a firm based in McPherson, Kan., has acquired the Wichita office location of CBIZ MHM LLC.

Everyone can agree that better financial analysis is a good thing for business leaders.

Global tax services firm Ryan has won a lawsuit challenging the provisions of a regulation governing consultant fee arrangements, especially the limitation on contingent fee arrangements.

Accounting and consulting firm Horne LLP has acquired the cybersecurity firm Halberd Group and established a new unit, Horne Cyber Solutions.

Net@Work founders have acquired the ecommerce practice of Pixafy, a Gold Partner of ecommerce software and platform provider Magento that develops ecommerce websites.

John Napolitano of U.S. Wealth Management talks about what it takes for CPAs to succeed in financial planning.

Bill.com has launched its mobile app for Android, used by accounting professionals and their clients to review, approve and pay bills on their devices.

Sage and Cloud9 Real Time announced a partnership enabling Sage View users to connect with client data in QuickBooks desktop in a hosted environment.

WithumSmith+Brown has released another fun dance and music video, an annual tradition at the firm, highlighting a new logo that emphasizes the Withum brand.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued correction procedures for employers who have paid benefits in excess of $130 per month in 2015 and wish to make corrections on their fourth quarter Form 941 in response to recent legislation.

Panalitix, an Australian developer of software tools for public accountants, has acquired 2020 Group USA, a membership and educational group for accounting firms founded by CPA consultant Chris Frederiksen.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Monday tweaked opponent Bernie Sanders for not yet releasing his tax proposals, adding yet another issue to her list of policy complaints about the Vermont senator who is rapidly gaining on her in many polls.

Hillary Clinton is calling for a 4 percent tax surcharge on Americans making more than $5 million annually, a move that would lead to the highest top U.S. income tax rate in 30 years.

The Center for Audit Quality issued a new report Tuesday describing some of the feedback it has received on the audit quality indicators it has been pilot testing with auditors and audit committees.

Rep. Tom Reed, R-N.Y., has proposed to require nonprofit colleges and universities to dedicate 25 percent of their annual endowment income to financial aid. If they don’t, they could lose their tax-exempt status.

I have never felt annual staff evaluations are effective. They are forced meetings that lay on complaints and blame for past failures, many of which are not remembered or are vague memories at best.

The number of going concern opinions declined in 2014, but mainly because many of the companies identified as being in trouble by their auditors in previous years actually did go out of business.

The European Union ordered Belgium to recover about 700 million euros ($762 million) in illegal tax breaks given to at least 35 companies, including Anheuser-Busch InBev NVand BP Plc, as regulators continued a crackdown on overly generous tax schemes throughout the 28-nation bloc.

Sassetti LLC has merged in Brennan & Brosnan LLC in Naperville, Ill., effective Jan. 1, 2016, expanding Sassetti’s accounting, auditing and tax practice in the suburbs of Chicago.