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The National Association of State Boards of Accountancy has appointed a new chairman and board of directors for 2013-2014.

The Private Company Council has voted to finalize an alternative standard for private companies to use when applying variable interest entity guidance to common control leasing arrangements.

Nonprofit accounting software maker Blackbaud Inc. has named Michael Gianoni president and chief executive officer, effective January 13, 2014, replacing interim president Anthony Boor.

U.S. and French officials signed an intergovernmental agreement Thursday to advance the implementation of the Foreign Accounting Tax Compliance Act.

John Dailey, a partner at Bowman & Co., was recently elected Northeast Regional Director of the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy.

The head of the Internal Revenue Service’s small business unit said his division expects to move from focusing on audits of small corporations to partnerships.

The Internal Revenue Service has admitted to mistakenly assessing penalties on businesses that had requested extensions on filing the Form 5500 for their employee retirement plans.

Rich Stovsky, U.S. Private Company Services Leader at PricewaterhouseCoopers, discusses some of the main global trends that accounting firms should advise their private company clients to consider to help them build their businesses, in an interview with AccountingToday.com editor-in-chief Michael Cohn.

Michel Prada, chairman of the IFRS Foundation Board of Trustees, which oversees the International Accounting Standards Board, took countries like the U.S. and Japan to task for taking what he called an “à la carte” approach to accounting standards by not fully embracing International Financial Reporting Standards.

Accounting firms could find value in managing their clients online funding campaigns, according to Xcentric's vice president of marketing Roy Keely.

The Internal Revenue Service has released nearly 3,000 pages of training materials used by the Internal Revenue Service’s Exempt Organizations unit in making determinations of whether to grant tax-exempt status to organizations, in response to a lawsuit from the nonprofit publisher Tax Analysts.

A Kentucky circuit court judge has ruled that Grant Thornton is liable for more than $100 million in damages to be paid to a business owner and his family after he was sold an offshore tax shelter that the Internal Revenue Service considered abusive.

I am frequently asked the above question by practitioners as I teach courses about using this tablet, so I think it’s important to have a deeper understanding of how the iPad and other tablets can be used in a business role versus the standard PC or even a laptop.

A unit set up by the Internal Revenue Service to improve international tax compliance by individuals is paying off, according to a new government report, enabling IRS auditors to assess an additional $36 million in taxes for fiscal years 2011 to 2013.

Thomson Reuters has released a Web-based analytical tool to help tax practitioners and employee benefits professionals make decisions about the Affordable Care Act for their clients and companies.

A New York man has pleaded guilty to leading one of the largest and longest-running tax refund fraud schemes associated with identity theft ever perpetrated in the U.S.

CEOs who are approaching retirement tend to inflate their earnings forecasts, according to a new study.

A couple who owned a Hollywood-area movie post-production company have pleaded guilty to fraud and theft charges after admitting to embezzling their employees’ payroll taxes and failing to remit the money to the Internal Revenue Service.

Municipal bonds typically represent an investor’s safest asset or the most conservative component of the overall investment portfolio.

Sage North America and Epicor partner CompuData has added Intacct to its list of product offerings as part of the Intacct Business Partner Program.