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SAP AG has released the SAP ERP Foundation Extension, a new offering designed to enable companies new to SAP to implement a system optimized to their specific needs, as well as deploy SAP more efficiently though their organization.

Americans who currently buy their own insurance through the individual market would receive tax credits averaging nearly $2,700 next year for coverage purchased through new insurance marketplaces under the Affordable Care Act, according to a new study.

The Association for Accounting Marketing will be hiring its first chief executive officer, representing the first staff hire for the national trade association.

The Nevada Supreme Court issued a little-noticed decision in late May that could have significant implications for disputes between auditors and their clients.

U.S. taxpayers filed 145.4 million individual income tax returns for tax year 2011, a 1.7 percent increase from 2010, according to newly released IRS statistics.

House Small Business Committee chairman Sam Graves, R-Mo., has written a letter to the Internal Revenue Service expressing his concerns about the thousands of notices that the IRS is sending to small businesses telling them they may have underreported their income.

The Center for Audit Quality released a document Tuesday highlighting some important elements of audit quality that audit firms could consider in refining or developing their own reporting regarding their public company audit practice.

The Internal Revenue Service has proposed to extend for up to 10 years the amount of time that taxpayers would have to apply for the “innocent spouse” tax relief program.

Deloitte’s implementation service for the SAP CRM rapid-deployment solution is now qualified by SAP, officially allowing SAP software and content to be combined with services from Deloitte.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board proposed for public comment a new auditing standard and related amendments to enhance the auditor's reporting model on Tuesday.

Married same-sex couples with children may face higher bills from the IRS as recent Supreme Court rulings start playing out in the tax code.

A pair of House Republican lawmakers, House Ways and Means Committee chairman Dave Camp, R-Mich., and House Oversight Subcommittee chairman Charles Boustany Jr., M.D., R-La., have written to Internal Revenue Service principal deputy commissioner Daniel Werfel calling on him to immediately stop the IRS from continuing to target Tea Party applications based on name alone, but Democrats are disputing the charges.

When coaching accounting firms on crafting an industry niche-driven growth strategy, there are three critical questions that we work together to answer. The first step is to assess how well aligned your firm is with the industry.

The Institute of Management Accountants has launched a new initiative to endorse undergraduate accounting programs that provide the skills needed for corporate accountants.

Despite being highly sophisticated and capable, ERP systems are so often under-optimized and not used to their maximum potential, either due to busy CFO leadership, expensive consulting costs, and the never-ending budget constraints on IT investments.

Most state and local governments have achieved clean audit opinions, but a new poll of state finance officials found that implementing the Affordable Care Act and funding the pension costs of current and retired employees are among their biggest ongoing challenges.

Audit and risk management product maker ACL has signed a definitive agreement to purchase The Prodigy Group, a Singapore-based software reseller and consulting services provider focused on audit, compliance, and risk management products.

Practice and document management software provider Office Tools Professional has formed a new partnership agreement with CPA-focused paperless tool maker cPaperless.

The IRS has lost several cases this year when taxpayers, who lacked good documents, or any documents, testified about the facts and were believed by the Tax Court.

Investors are more concerned about improving the quality of financial disclosures rather than simply reducing the quantity of them, according to a new report from the CFA Institute, which takes aim at some recently proposed disclosure reforms that seek to cut down disclosure overload.