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The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board posted settled disciplinary orders Friday involving three auditing firms and three people associated with them, charging them with violating the federal securities laws in addition to PCAOB auditing standards and rules in the audits of 10 public companies.

Last week I moderated an Accounting Today Webinar, sponsored by SurePayroll, on the 2014 Tax Season Toolkit.

Corporate capital expansion plans present opportunities for companies to leverage tax credits and incentives, according to a new study by Ernst & Young that found such plans driving activity in this area.

The on-again, off-again nature of the federal tax provisions traditionally known as tax extenders is leading to uncertainty and unnecessary complexity, according to tax policy experts at the American Institute of CPAs.

The Internal Revenue Service needs to do a better job of tracking its efforts to eliminate identified flaws in the security of systems involving taxpayer data, according to a new government report released to the public on Thursday.

WeiserMazars LLP has merged with the Resnick Druckman Group LLC.

Senate Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., released a third set of proposals Thursday to overhaul America’s tax code, this one focusing on reforms to tax accounting and cost recovery rules.

“Complexity is the biggest challenge and the biggest opportunity” were the opening words of a keynote speech given by CPA2Biz president and chief executive Erik Asgeirsson here at the 2013 Digital CPA Conference, and helped define the theme of the overall event.

Kabat, Schertzer, De La Torre, Taraboulos & Co. has plans to merge with Homestead, Fla.-based Conn & Sharp PA. The combination is expected to go into effect on December 1.

A pair of congressmen who are also physicians, Ami Bera, M.D., D-Calif., and Charles Boustany, M.D., R-La., introduced a bipartisan bill late last month to make health care more affordable for working families, small businesses and seniors.

Online payroll provider SurePayroll Inc. has found the government shutdown had a significant impact on businesses with 10 or less employees, causing them to rethink expectations for the future and question their leaders.

U.S. small business employment declined in October, as did compensation and hours worked for their hourly employees, according to figures from Intuit.

ACL has released upgrades to its cloud-based risk management, audit management, and compliance offering ACL GRC and its flagship data analytics software ACL Analytics.

With only weeks remaining in 2013, many Americans have finalized their financial planning for the year, thinking they’ve done all they can to maximize tax savings. But many do not know there are still a number of opportunities to do some last-minute finagling to save as much as possible.

Privately held retailers are growing sales at an annual rate of less than 1 percent so far in 2013, the lowest annual rate since 2009, according to data from the financial information company Sageworks, indicating a slow holiday season ahead for many retailers.

Deloitte has introduced CloudMix, a preconfigured mixture of cloud applications bringing together software from various developers, including Salesforce.com, MuleSoft, Apptus and others.

The Internal Revenue Service needs to improve its use of return on investment data in managing tax enforcement resources, according to a new government report.

Exact has officially launched an online, subscription-based software designed to help small manufacturers and wholesale distributors streamline production and inventory management, logistics and CRM.

Findings from a recent survey from CPA2Biz, the technology services subsidiary of the American Institute of CPAs, indicates that more CPA firms are using cloud-based services despite a notable rise in security concerns.

The Institute of Management Accountants has become a member of the International Federation of Accountants, reflecting the growing importance of management accountants in the global economy.