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Adaptive Professional Solutions has debuted an online marketplace for temporary accounting and finance staffing.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued final regulations clarifying the rules regarding the tax treatment of payments by qualified retirement plans for accident or health insurance.

Republicans trying to end a U.S. excise tax on medical devices see a chance to capitalize on fractures among Democrats and score a long-sought victory.

For the first time in 15 years, cost segregation services have made Accounting Today’s list of Top Niche services for increasing business, putting engineering studies at the top of the charts in terms of important consulting services for 2014. So what’s driving this sudden attention and popularity?

AccountantsWorld president Jeff Gramlich discusses pricing pressures, competition for talent, commoditization, cloud technology and other challenges confronting accountants over the next five years, in an interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Dan Hood.

A majority of accounting and finance executives in the U.S. and Canada are anticipating that their companies’ compliance burden will increase in the years ahead, though less than half expect the cost of compliance to grow.

NetSuite introduced a next-generation services resource planning solution that combines ERP and professional services automation.

Netsuite announced a new user interface and a next-generation B2B Customer Center built on the company’s SuiteCommerce platform.

The quantity of financial restatements from public companies has leveled off in the past four years and the severity of those restatements has remained low, according to a new report from the research firm Audit Analytics, but restatements have increased from accelerated filers for the third straight year.

Ninety percent of tax and finance executives of companies headquartered in the United States anticipate already heightened tax risks to accelerate in the next two years, compared to executives with 81 percent of companies globally who anticipate increased risk, according to a new survey by Ernst & Young.

The Internal Revenue Service allowed an estimated $13.3 billion to $15.6 billion to be paid in improper claims for the Earned Income Tax Credit last fiscal year, or about 22 to 26 percent of all EITC payments, according to a new government report, which found the IRS continuing to be noncompliant with a 2010 law that sought to limit improper payments.

The Internal Revenue Service has declined to file a petition with the Supreme Court to appeal a series of rulings invalidating its effort to require mandatory testing and continuing education of tax preparers.

The Indiana congressional delegation has sent a letter to Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen asking for an investigation into reports that hundreds of Indiana doctors and health care professionals have been victimized by identity theft.

The three founders of the enterprise resource planning and accounting software company Lawson Software have agreed to pay $5.8 million to settle charges with the Securities and Exchange Company that they engaged in insider trading ahead of the sale of the company.

As the May 15 deadline approaches for tax-exempt organizations to file the Form 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, the Internal Revenue Service is warning them not to include Social Security numbers and other personally identifiable information in their tax forms.

“Failure” is a word that has a definite negative connotation in the vocabulary of a managing partner or CEO, but in the new concept of leadership management a collaborative failure should not be observed as a bad occurrence.

BDO USA LLP has added the Fort Worth, Texas-based regional accounting firm Hartman Leito & Bolt. The merger is expected to close on June 1.

Intuit agreed to acquire Lettuce, a start-up providing cloud-based solutions and an inventory and order management system to product-based small businesses.

The Center for Audit Quality and the American Institute of CPAs have issued a member alert discussing regulatory changes for audits and attestation engagements of brokers and dealers and futures commission merchants, including entities that are dually registered.

Journyx announced that companies seeking a new time and expense solution after the cancellation of Business Portal can download a free 30-day trial of its add-on software.