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Public companies are confronting significant new compliance challenges from a combination of Sarbanes-Oxley requirements, Public Company Accounting Oversight Board inspections of their auditing firms, and COSO’s new internal control framework, according to a new survey.

Accounting firms are full of barriers to growth, many of which are invisible, and some of which may spring from the owners themselves, according to growth consultant Angie Grissom.

Payroll giant ADP has put together a new infographic comparing in-house versus outsourced services for handling payroll taxes.

The Association for Accounting Marketing has handed out 43 awards for marketing achievement to accounting firms and their marketing employees.

U.S. corporations have reported to the Internal Revenue Service that 54 percent of their offshore profits are earned in 12 tax haven countries that, combined, only account for 4 percent of economic output among all countries where U.S. corporations do business.

A group of technology companies sent a letter Wednesday to leaders of the House Financial Services Committee objecting to legislation that would exempt companies with under $250 million in annual revenue from existing requirements to file financial statements as machine-readable open data.

The XBRL International Standards Board is forming a global Corporate Actions Working Group to standardize the transmission of corporate action events in Extensible Business Reporting Language, or XBRL.

The Governmental Accounting Standards Board voted unanimously Wednesday to approve two exposure drafts proposing significant improvements to financial reporting by state and local governments of other post-employment benefits, such as retiree health insurance.

Thomson Reuters has kicked off a new blog series to help UltraTax CS users enhance their client relationships and generate additional revenue using data mining capabilities within the software.

This summer, there is a good chance that you, or someone you know, will be participating in a walk/run dedicated to supporting a nonprofit organization.

Xero was named No. 1 on Forbes’ list of the World’s 100 Most Innovative Growth Companies, followed by NetSuite at No. 2.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board and the International Accounting Standards Board have released their long-awaited converged standard on revenue recognition after more than a decade of effort.

Nearly 6 million Americans living abroad are facing a June 16 deadline to file their taxes this year.

Accounting Today is in the midst of collecting submissions for its 2014 ranking of the Top Firms by AUM.

Thomson Reuters has released a pair of new client marketing newsletters for CPA firms seeking to grow their accounting, auditing and international tax practices.

Between the rising popularity of content marketing and the fact that it isn’t going anywhere soon, many firms these days find themselves pondering the important question, “What do we have to say?”

The National Conference of CPA Practitioners is questioning a proposal to reinstate a discontinued program that would allow private contractors to collect unpaid tax debts on behalf of the Internal Revenue Service.

Thirteen Swiss banks face rising stakes in their own criminal probes after Credit Suisse Group AG set a new standard for punishment in the U.S. crackdown on offshore tax evasion.

The effects of the Affordable Care Act may be weighing less heavily on the hiring plans of U.S. privately held companies this year, according to a survey of accountants who work with small businesses.

Lynnette Richmann and Sonny Brandtner have joined LaPorte CPAs & Business Advisors as directors.