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Time is money, they say, and at many top firms that means that employees get to spend time like it was cash.

It’s never too late in the year for you and your clients to get ready for next tax season.

For the fourth year in a row, the whistleblower awards that the Internal Revenue Service pays to tipsters will be reduced.

The International Organization of Securities Commissions is encouraging audit firms to be more transparent to investors about their practices by producing a new kind of report.

In my early days I would get many leads for clients who told me they were switching accountants because they believed they were paying “too much tax.”

Intuit announced new QuickBooks features, investments and partner programs at the QuickBooks Connect conference Nov. 2-4 in San Jose, Calif.

Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Wis., has introduced two pieces of legislation to combat corporate tax inversions and tax deferral.

BDO Canada LLP has acquired H&A Forensic Accounting, a Toronto-based professional forensic accounting and advisory firm.

Toshiba Corp. sued three former presidents as the maker of personal computers and power plants tries to recover from accounting irregularities that have led to profit write-downs of more than $1.2 billion over almost seven years.

Disengagement is lowering the profitability and viability of accounting firms across the country – but there are some simple ways to start re-engaging your employees, according to staffing issues expert Sandra Wiley.

Some of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

The pace of change is accelerating in almost every aspect of the accounting profession, the general economy, and society at large, and accountants must do more just to keep up, warned technology leader Jon Baron.

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Base Erosion and Profit Shifting action plan is likely to have a major impact on tax planning at multinational corporations by both tax professionals and corporate treasurers.

A significant amount of planning is typically involved before most major events. For example, the D-Day invasion was planned and scheduled with extreme detail months before its execution on June 6, 1944. Likewise, accountants each year experience a tax season that requires detailed planning and precise execution.

A new Inspector General report faults the security of the computer connections at the Internal Revenue Service.

Rootworks CEO Darren Root describes how firms should develop more of an entrepreneurial mindset, in an interview with Accounting Today managing editor Danielle Lee.

The economy added a surprisingly robust 271,000 jobs in October, including 3,400 jobs in accounting and bookkeeping services, sending the unemployment rate down one-tenth of a percent to 5.0 percent, the lowest rate in seven years.

A key accounting safeguard intended to protect U.S. investors who buy shares of Chinese companies is close to unraveling.

Around 70 percent of your firm’s staff are either coasting or are actively disengaged from their jobs, according to staffing issues expert Sandra Wiley -- and some of that may be your fault.

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