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Three-quarters of Americans are worried about having enough money for retirement, according to a new survey that found three out of 10 Americans are not saving for later years.

ACL has introduced an add-in tool for Microsoft Excel aimed at auditors and compliance professionals.

An Internal Revenue Service employee has been suspended for 100 days without pay for urging taxpayers to re-elect President Obama in 2012.

More than one accounting firm thinks BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) should be relabeled BYOH (Bring Your Own Headache).

The majority of attendees at a roundtable discussion Thursday in Washington, D.C., on enhancing the ethics standards for accountants favored changes by the International Ethics Standards Board of Accountants to permit reporting of illegal acts.

Lawmakers in the U.S. House and Senate are advancing dueling measures today that would provide a short-term cash infusion through May 2015 to a fund covering the federal share of road, bridge and mass-transit projects.

The American Institute of CPAs is offering a new, free newsletter called Inclusion Solutions.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has begun sending letters to public companies that fail to file their financials with all the necessary data using Extensible Business Reporting Language technology.

Highlights of some of our favorite tax-related blogs from the past week.

New Jersey Society of CPAs CEO and executive director Ralph Thomas discusses the need for greater diversity in accounting firms, in an interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Daniel Hood.

The real estate investment trust Ventas has dismissed Ernst & Young as its auditor after E&Y determined that it lacked independence because of an “inappropriate personal relationship” between an E&Y partner and Ventas’s former chief accounting officer and controller.

A subcommittee of the House of Representatives’ Committee on Small Business held a hearing today to discuss the value of using the cash basis of accounting in small businesses, and whether they should be required to use the accrual basis.

Dr. William "Bill" Bithoney has joined BDO USA LLP’s BDO Consulting as chief physician executive and managing director.

SaaS expense management provider Tallie has hired Julie Carman as vice president of business development.

In 2014 many of the country’s high-income earners will keep less than they pay in taxes.

A federal appeals court has upheld a penalty assessed against the estate of a deceased man because the executor filed the return late, even though estimated taxes had been paid.

The Internal Revenue Service is being urged to modernize the process of filing amended tax returns in a new government report that estimates the IRS could be losing billions of dollars from erroneous tax refunds claimed on amended tax returns.

Financial Executives International has elected a new slate of executive officers and members of the board of directors for the fiscal year, effective July 1.

The Institute of Management Accountants and the American Accounting Association’s Management Accounting Section have released a new framework intended to broaden the scope of accounting education.

The Institute of Internal Auditors has elected PricewaterhouseCoopers partner Anton van Wyk, a native of South Africa, as chairman of the IIA’s 2014-2015 Global Board of Directors.