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BeachFleischman PC has merged in Cervantes CPA Firm, P.C., a Scottsdale, Ariz.-based firm, effective Jan. 1, 2016.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has endorsed a consensus recommendation from the Private Company Council to remove the effective dates for four standards.

State government debt is expected to reach $1.17 trillion in fiscal year 2016, but elected officials have no interest in raising tax rates or taking austerity measures. Instead, states will use three tools to expand their taxpayer base: pot, opacity and sufficient presence. Here is how the sales tax landscape may change in 2016.

The Internal Revenue Service said Tuesday that taxpayers are receiving letters with the wrong date listed for their Identity Protection Personal Identification Numbers, which are generally issued to victims of tax-related identity theft.

FreshBooks redesigned the company’s iOS app for its service-based small business customers.

Accounting Today has issued a call for submissions for its 2016 Top New Products report.

The Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board has released an exposure draft of a proposed Statement of Federal Financial Accounting Standards on insurance programs for the federal government.

An employee who worked in the IRS’s Taxpayer Advocate Service at a job assisting identity theft victims has instead been charged with running a $1 million identity theft tax fraud scheme.

Payroll giant Paychex reported a slight decline in small business employment growth in December.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board issued Tuesday a long-awaited accounting standards update for the recognition and measurement of financial instruments that it has been developing for over a decade with the International Accounting Standards Board.

Republican presidential candidate and famed neurosurgeon Ben Carson has released a flat tax plan as he aims to revive his candidacy.

Lyle Benson of L.K. Benson & Co., who chairs the AICPA's PFP section, discusses how the next generation of the CPA profession can get into personal financial planning.

H&R Block has planned a big money giveaway to lure clients to its offices this tax season.

Insero & Co. CPAs has merged in Ciaschi, Dietershagen, Little, Mickelson & Company, LLP, effective Jan. 1, 2016.

A new year has just begun. Start it by getting and staying in control. Here are some ways to do this.

Top 100 firm Wipfli LLP has merged in Steinberg Advisors, Ltd., effective January 1, expanding the Milwaukee-based firm’s presence in Illinois.

Fast-growing New York CPA firm O’Connor Davies has merged in Flackman, Goodman & Potter, a New Jersey-based accounting firm that specializes in transaction advisory services for private equity funds.

James Brendel has been named managing partner of Hein & Associates LLP after 28 years at the nationwide accounting and advisory firm.

CliftonLarsonAllen has merged in four more firms—Four Point Partners, Guthoff Mehall Allen & Company, Komisar Brady & Co. LLP, and Galanti & Company P.C.—with all the deals effective Jan. 1, 2016.

Check out the digital edition of the January 2016 issue of Accounting Today.