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The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants gave honorary memberships to two distinguished members of the accounting profession—former International Federation of Accountants CEO Ian Ball and Harvard Business School professor Bob Eccles—at a special event in London.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board plans to hold a meeting next Wednesday to discuss re-proposing a requirement for auditing firms to disclose in the auditor’s report the names of the engagement partner and certain other participants in the audit.

Accounting and advisory firm Marcum LLP has released the 2013 Marcum Year-End Tax Guide.

The past couple of weeks have been a period where you have to ask, “what didn’t happen?” Rebranding, major financings, practice growth, practice closures; we had it all.

The Maetreum of Cybele, a 501(c)3 religious organization, has won an appeal from the denial of its applications for real property tax exemptions in the Town of Catskill, N.Y.

The Internal Revenue Service needs to do more to expand use of the Internet by taxpayers to arrange Online Payment Agreements with the agency, according to a new report.

The Internal Revenue Service has released final regulations for the Net Investment Income Tax that was included in the Affordable Care Act.

It’s no secret that the legal profession has been facing a host of challenges in recent years, including layoffs and consolidation at many large firms and a steep decline in enrollment at many law schools as students who graduate are confronted with astronomical debts from their student loans and grim job prospects.

The American Institute of CPAs’ Accounting and Review Services Committee has issued a Proposed Statement on Standards for Accounting and Review Services, Framework for Performing and Reporting on Compilation and Review Engagements, as a result of its Clarity Project.

Deployment of the Internal Revenue Service’s Customer Account Data Engine 2, or CADE 2, database has been delayed and its deployment cost has risen an estimated 74 percent to $83 million, according to a new government report.

After rebounding in October, the accounting profession’s expectations for economic growth remained healthy this month, according to the November edition of Accounting Today’s monthly Accountants Confidence Index.

The Internal Revenue Service is trying to decide whether to let its employees bring their own smartphones to work to access their email and other services, but a new report suggests that the IRS first needs to perform a better cost-benefit analysis and put in place more stringent security measures, including a ban for now on Android devices.

Payroll continues to be one of the most talked about topics in the profession and CPA firm owner Sean Manning attempts to dispel the myths about this oft avoided, yet potentially profitable service offering.

Art Kuesel of Kuesel Consulting discusses the top three marketing trends in the accounting profession in an interview with Accounting Today managing editor Tamika Cody at the Growth & Profitability Summit in Orlando.

The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service said Tuesday they are issuing initial guidance regarding qualification requirements for tax-exemption as a social welfare organization under Section 501(c)(4) of the Tax Code after a scandal erupted earlier this year over claims that the IRS was targeting Tea Party groups applying for tax-exempt status.

Not only are the requirements of the Affordable Care Act difficult and complicated for businesses to understand, but in many cases those aspects that businesses and their advisors think they understand are already slated to change in the future, according to one expert.

House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee chairman Charles Boustany, R-La., has introduced legislation to reform the Internal Revenue Service’s review of applications for tax-exempt status to avoid unfair targeting of some groups.

Host Analytics is now offering a tool to instantly move Microsoft Excel models into a centralized, cloud environment to facilitate financial planning and reporting.

Top CPA firm ParenteBeard recently announced to its clients that it is closing its two-decade old technology practice, ParenteBeard Technology, effective this Friday, November 29.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board approved a 2014 fiscal-year budget of approximately $258.4 million, a 5 percent increase over this past year, and a 2013-2017 strategic plan that includes a greater focus on accounting firms’ burgeoning consulting practices.