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Intuit introduced online resource FirmoftheFuture.com, a hub of curated content for accountants that includes step-by-step guides and resource links.

The Internal Revenue Service discovered last month that criminals accessed around 104,000 tax returns through its Get Transcript application and tried to get hold of approximately 100,000 more.

As accountants pay increased attention to evaluating the performance of a client’s life insurance portfolio, life insurance is becoming recognized as a “buy and manage” asset rather than as a “buy and hold” asset.

The Governmental Accounting Standards Board has voted unanimously to approve two new standards that it believes will significantly improve the accounting and financial reporting by state and local governments for postemployment benefits other than pensions, primarily retiree health insurance.

Victims of the severe storms, tornadoes, straight-line winds and flooding early last month in parts of Oklahoma may qualify for tax relief from the IRS.

The pace of small business hiring appears to be leveling off, according to a new report from payroll giant Paychex and the research firm IHS.

Teresa Mackintosh of Wolters Kluwer discusses how technology can help accountants deal with the challenges they are facing, in an interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Dan Hood.

The IRS’s initiative to expand online services for taxpayers makes it more likely that the U.S. tax agency will be hit by “hackers and other fraudsters,” the agency’s inspector general said Tuesday.

Teresa Mackintosh of Wolters Kluwer discusses how accounting firms are improving client service by using technology and some of the demographic shifts in accounting, in an interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Dan Hood.

The digital edition of the June 2015 issue of Accounting Today is now available.

A CPA faces the toughest presentation of his career

In the struggle to keep staff happy, these three tools may help turn the tide

Microsoft Corp. and the IRS are back in court, this time fighting about the U.S. tax agency’s interest in hiring David Boies, the lawyer who beat Microsoft in an antitrust case in 2000.

The Baby Boomer exodus and technological change are making Millennials more influential than anyone expected

The real reason why you don't see female partners at the firm

These solutions are critical to the ‘New Firm’

Accounting Today is in the midst of collecting submissions for its 2015 ranking of the Top Firms by AUM.

Common mistakes clients and planners make

In 1998 I read that Andersen Consulting would be spending $100 million to brand their company. This seemed unusual for a few reasons.