Subject Root Tag

David J. Moynihan, a past president of the New York State Society of CPAs and audit partner at the Bonadio Group’s Syracuse office, died early Friday morning after a nearly year-long battle with cancer.

Last week I wrote about my introduction to QuickBooks and how we took our entire staff to a training course for it. Today I am writing about training for the most basic software we use: Excel, Word and Adobe.

While Dashlane achieves the primary purpose of a password management app in its security, it also alleviates the headache of password overload.

Six former members of the University of South Dakota football team have pleaded guilty to participating in a tax refund fraud scheme.

There is a trend that is starting to take hold in the U.S.: the rise of the advisory bookkeeper.

Preparing your office for the race to April 15

Some of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

Our weekly roundup of tax-related investment strategies and news your clients may be thinking about.

In his weekly address on Saturday, July 26, 2014, President Obama criticized large corporations that employ tax inversion strategies saying, “They’re keeping most of their business inside the United States, but they’re basically renouncing their citizenship and declaring that they’re based somewhere else, just to avoid paying their fair share.”

Harriet Greenberg and Kim Dula of Friedman LLP encourage female CPAs to ask for what they want as it relates to their career growth, in an interview with Accounting Today managing editor Tamika Cody. Greenberg was recently promoted to co-managing partner at Friedman after this video was shot.

The House fell only a few votes short of rolling back a requirement for companies with annual revenue below $250 million from filing their financial statements with the Securities and Exchange Commission in the data-tagged Extensible Business Reporting Language format.

Symmetry Software announced hundreds of tax changes in the calculators of its PaycheckCity solution for users to accurately calculate their first paychecks of 2015.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has updated its standard-setting agenda after undergoing criticism that it is not moving faster on releasing new standards.

Friedman LLP kicked off the New Year by promoting several into key leadership positions and appointing four new partners.

New hires, promotions and more…

Office moves, name changes and more…

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday that total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 252,000 in December, and the unemployment rate declined two-tenths of a percentage point to 5.6 percent. While job gains occurred in professional and business services, along with other industries such as construction, food services and drinking places, health care, and manufacturing, December's job losses in accounting and bookkeeping offset the gains in November.

Political uncertainty, the effects of the Affordable Care Act, and retirement costs are just some of the challenges Americans face in today's ever-changing financial landscape. To mitigate these challenges, this year's AICPA Advanced Personal Financial Planning Conference, held at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas from January 19-21, will look to give planners the necessary skills tools and skills to navigate today's field of financial planning.

A roundup of recent accounting firm mergers and acquisitions

Two Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee have introduced legislation to regulate paid tax preparers in response to the federal court decision that found the Internal Revenue Service had exceeded its statutory authority in regulating preparers.