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Spring is a time of optimism, so it’s a great time for accounting firms to look for fresh opportunities to grow the business. Here are five ways accounting firms can “fertilize” their existing efforts in order to jumpstart their business and grow deeper, stronger roots with clients.

The American Institute of CPAs has written to the Internal Revenue Service agreeing with the IRS’s proposed guidance governing how to report the cancellation of debt, but suggesting some changes as well.

Helen Brand, chief executive of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, discusses how the ACCA is growing around the world.

The current rollover process for 401(k) plans favors distributions to individual retirement accounts rather than the 401(k) plan that a new employer might offer, and a new government report suggests the Internal Revenue Service and the Labor Department could be doing more to make the process easier.

Private sector employers added a total of 158,000 jobs in March, according to payroll giant ADP, with growth occurring across all sizes of companies and many industries such as finance, with the notable exception of construction.

Susan Hammons, Lori Pittman and Steven Talken have been admitted as shareholders at Mize Houser & Co. PA, a Regional Leader in the Midwest.

Management consultant and veteran VAR Terry Petrzelka answers some key questions on how today’s VARs differ from even just a few years ago and how they can and need to progress to remain in business.

More than a third of U.S. adults expect to spend their tax refunds this year on meeting everyday expenses, according to a new survey by the American Institute of CPAs, as the expiration of the payroll tax cut takes a bite out of workers’ take-home pay.

Avalara has formed a strategic alliance with the BKR International global alliance of 150 accounting and consulting firms which will focus on sharing critical sales and use tax (SUT) and value added tax (VAT) information.

A report from the Securities and Exchange Commission clears companies to use social media outlets like Facebook and Twitter to announce key information, provided that investors have been alerted about which social media will be used.

When you need something done right -- whether it’s legal, medical or even automotive -- everyone knows that a specialist is better than a generalist.

With less than two weeks to go in tax season, the IRS has unveiled six key points about self-employment and self-employment taxes

The IRS wants nominations for its Information Reporting Program Advisory Committee, a federal advisory panel that advises the IRS on tax administration issues, and that presents an annual report to the IRS commissioner in the fall.

A recent court decision ruled that a CPA’s failure to file and pay his taxes couldn’t be used against him in an unrelated tax shelter case.

Tax Freedom Day -- the day when Americans will have earned enough to pay their total tax bill for the year -- won’t occur until April 18 this year, five days later than last year, according to the nonprofit think tank that compiles it. And American taxpayers will spend more in taxes in 2013 than they will on food, clothing, and housing combined.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board is proposing improvements to financial reporting about discontinued operations of major business lines or major geographic areas of operations.

QuickBooks hosting and online accounting solution provider Swizznet is now offering cloud-hosted QuickBooks Point of Sale 2013 for both single and multi-lane environments.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has released a new implementation guide for the Extensible Business Reporting Language. This guide, the fifth in a series, focuses on modeling other comprehensive income transactions in XBRL.

Mary Schapiro, chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission until December, joined Promontory Financial Group LLC as a managing director and chairman of the firm’s governance and markets practice.