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A roundup of recent personnel announcements from accounting firms and companies across the country.

It’s not likely to be as big a summer blockbuster as “Jurassic World,” but a new documentary about the carried interest tax break has just premiered.

Between legislative changes and proposed rules and guidance issued by government agencies at the federal, state, and local levels, business owners have a lot of red tape to navigate and understand.

The IRS has issued proposed regulations that provide guidance to U.S. taxpayers who receive gifts or inheritances from certain individuals who have expatriated.

A group of Democratic lawmakers in Congress are urging the Treasury Department to crack down on corporations that use tax inversions to merge with foreign companies to lower their tax rates and publish a shame list of them.

The International Accounting Standards has issued an amendment to its revenue recognition standard, IFRS 15 Revenue from Contracts with Customers, formalizing the deferral of the effective date by one year until 2018.

The board of directors of the National Association of Black Accountants has selected Jina Etienne, the American Institute of CPAs' director of taxation, as NABA's new president and CEO, effective Sept. 17, 2015.

You’re running late for a meeting. You have two modes of communication to let your contact know: a letter or an email. Which one will you choose?

This week happens to be National Payroll Week, so it’s a good time to sort through some of the misconceptions and lingering questions about payroll that accountants may be hearing from their business clients.

NetSuite announced a partnership with Celegro to add the company’s cloud-based global payroll management solution to NetSuite’s cloud-based business management platform.

Independent tax preparation businesses face challenges of fierce competition and seasonality, according to Chuck McCabe, president of Peoples Income Tax and The Income Tax School.

Bloomberg BNA has released BNA State Tax Analyzer, a multi-state, multi-year, multi-scenario state tax analysis tool for corporate income taxes.

The Securities and Exchange Commission filed accounting fraud charges against two former top executives of a now-bankrupt online video management company, accusing them of falsifying financial statements to make the company appear more profitable than it was in reality.

The Internal Revenue Service’s Automated Collection System lacks key controls for selecting which delinquent tax cases to pursue, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office.

The Internal Revenue Service says employers can now do a trial run of their electronic form filing for reporting requirements under the Affordable Care Act, giving nervous employers and their benefit advisers a way to test for readiness in advance of the reporting deadlines.

The pace of new hiring for accounting and finance jobs is expected to hit its highest level this year during the fourth quarter within certain markets, according to a new report.

The Internal Revenue Service cannot readily identify American citizens and resident aliens working in a foreign country, along with resident aliens working in the United States, who may have improperly claimed exemption from U.S. Social Security taxes, according to a new report.

The Institute of Internal Auditors has sent a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission calling on the SEC to require internal audit functions for all publicly traded companies.

The IRS reports that it processed 140,024,061 returns from last season through July 30.

Leaders in the profession share their success (or lack thereof) in attaining work-life balance