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Attorneys for the Internal Revenue Service presented their arguments before a federal appeals court in an effort to reinstate mandatory testing and continuing education of tax preparers.

Tax preparers are beginning to respond to the recent proposal by the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance to further regulate paid preparers.

Jackie Oneto, the first female managing partner at Gelman, Rosenberg & Freedman, sat down with Accounting Today to discuss the main hurdle hindering women in attaining leadership roles in the profession, and how to block out the background noise of people who say that they can’t conquer their goals.

Acumatica has appointed Sean Chatterjee to the newly created position of vice president, partner sales, which adds to much of his previous duties as director of international sales.

Much attention has been focused on the postponement of the Affordable Care Act’s employer mandate—the requirement that businesses with 50 or more employees provide them with health insurance or face significant fines, which the Obama Administration delayed for one year.

Jackson Hewitt Tax Service will offer customers free help enrolling in new insurance options under the Affordable Care Act.

KPMG LLP and its chairman and CEO John Veihmeyer were recognized for their corporate responsibility leadership by Corporate Responsibility Magazine. The magazine tapped Veihmeyer as one of its “Responsible CEO of the Year” award recipients.

Sax Macy Fromm & Co., PC of Clifton, N.J., and Bollam, Sheedy, Torani, & Co. LLP headquartered in Albany, N.Y., have agreed to merge.

Thomson Reuters has released PPC’s SMART Practice Aids – Audit Essential on its Thomson Reuters Checkpoint online research service.

Ziptr, the secure communications service predominantly targeting legal and accounting professionals, appears to be closing its doors as a notice was sent out to all users alerting them to the service’s discontinuation.

The Securities and Exchange Commission said Tuesday that foreign private issuers who prepare their financial statements in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards do not have to submit interactive data files until the SEC decides on a suitable XBRL taxonomy.

Accountant-centric software and consulting services provider Commercial Logic has released a new version of TrakTime Central for Quickbooks.

Cloud computing and IT consultant to CPA firms Roy Keely gives firms what they need to know and look out for concerning the terms and conditions associated with moving to the cloud.

The classic career path from staff accountant to CFO is coming to an end, according to a new report from the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and the Institute of Management Accountants.

The CFP Board unilaterally changed thousands of its certificants’ profiles on its website yesterday by removing the term “fee-only” and swapping it with “none provided.”

The Internal Revenue Service has released guidance on issuing tax refunds to same-sex married couples in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision striking down the Defense of Marriage Act.

The Internal Revenue Service is set to square off in court Tuesday against a trio of tax preparers who won a key ruling earlier this year invalidating the IRS’s efforts to impose mandatory testing and continuing education of Registered Tax Return Preparers.

The way I see it, there’s never been a better time to pursue a career in the public accounting and auditing profession.

Lois Lerner, the Internal Revenue Service official investigated by Congress over the agency’s scrutiny of Tea Party groups, has retired effective today, the agency said in a statement.

Contrary to its own guidelines, the Internal Revenue Service has not evaluated whether the goals of its streamlined corporate tax audit process are being achieved or if the process should be expanded, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office.