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Sales tax compliance technology provider Avalara has signed a strategic partnership with Moore Stephens North America, a regional association of accounting firms that is part of an international network, in the company’s latest deal with a major accounting firm group.

Commercial hosting service Cloud9 Real Time has released C9 Mobile, a downloadable app that gives Cloud9 users access to all of their desktop software applications from the iPad or iPad Mini.

Nonprofit accounting software provider Abila, has released Abila Millennium 2014, its donor relationship management tool which now features mobile capabilities.

Lateral hiring of partners and leaders by accounting firms from competing accounting firms is on the rise, according to a new study.

By misinterpreting federal law, the Internal Revenue Service has sharply limited the number of erroneous tax refunds and improper tax credit claims on which it can assess penalties, according to a new study.

Online bill payment and invoicing service Bill.com has secured $38 million in financing from new and existing investors, which include venture capital firms, financial institutions and individuals.

The U.S. sought court permission to ask Citigroup Inc. and Bank of New York Mellon Corp. for records of U.S. clients of Zuercher Kantonalbank, the biggest of Switzerland’s publicly owned regional banks, to determine whether those people evaded taxes, records show.

The Internal Revenue Service said it is sending letters in November and December to tax preparers suspected of filing inaccurate claims for the Earned Income Tax Credit.

By definition a pacesetter is not following a trend, they are setting an example and this year’s crop of Technology Pacesetters in the field of accounting-related software consulting are representative of where the profession is moving.

While I was working full-time early in my accounting career, I was also picking up clients that I did on the side, also known as moonlighting.

The Internal Revenue Service is reminding tax professionals that they can earn continuing professional education credits online through seminars filmed at the 2013 IRS Nationwide Tax Forums.

A new study examines the likely effects of a change in the U.S. corporate tax system from the current worldwide system to a new hybrid system similar to the territorial systems used by other developed countries and concludes that such a change would increase the repatriation of foreign earnings by U.S. multinational companies.

For the last several years, accounting firms have been merging with or acquiring their peers -- but the shopping spree is bound to come to an end as future leaders head out to create their own practices once the combined firms complete their integration, according to Boomer Consulting shareholder and COO Sandra Wiley.

Accountants must be feeling the love, or at least they potentially will, as a growing number of vendors appear to be designing more programs and products with these professionals in mind. But why now?

NetSuite Inc. has officially launched its ERP Consultant Certification Program, which is designed to offer professional services consultants an opportunity to validate their expertise in implementing, integrating and optimizing the product.

The Governmental Accounting Standards Board has released a new online toolkit to help preparers and auditors of state and local government pension plans implement new accounting and financial reporting standards.

KPMG International has set up KPMG Capital, an investment fund that aims to accelerate innovation in data and analytics to help clients of KPMG’s member firms unlock the value of their data.

CCH has debuted a CCH eBooks app for the Apple iPad to provide tax research on the go to tax practitioners.

Accountants face irrelevance if they don't keep up with the continuing changes in technology, according to Jon Baron, managing director of Thomson Reuters' Professional Tax & Accounting.

Ernst & Young has been making a greater effort this Veterans Day and in recent years to increase its outreach to veterans and hire more members of the military to bring their leadership skills to the firm.