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A new company aims to match up accounting contractors with potential employers.

Wednesday was a red-letter day for many accounting departments, as December 19 was the busiest day for submitting expense reports.

CPAs in New York State are not expecting business conditions in the state to improve next year.

IRS Acting Commissioner Steven T. Miller warned Congress on Wednesday that if lawmakers fail to extend the traditional alternative minimum tax patch, up to 100 million American taxpayers could be affected, and most taxpayers might not be able to file their tax returns until late March 2013 or later.

Payroll service provider Paychex has provided a list of five tax benefits that small businesses, and their accountants, should consider before the end of the year.

Rich Rotstein LLP has agreed to merge with Collins Barrow Toronto.

CCH has introduced a new tax planning tool to help tax advisors and their clients keep a step ahead of the fiscal cliff negotiations in Congress and the White House.

More than half of accountants are seeing their business owner clients making changes in their businesses as a result of the uncertainty surrounding the fiscal cliff, according to a new survey by the financial information company Sageworks.

Losses due to fraud are estimated to increase 20 percent during the U.S. holiday season, according to a new survey by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.

A pair of lawmakers have introduced a bipartisan bill in the House to end a 78-year-old tax provision that includes dividends from controlled foreign corporations in personal holding company income.

The International Forum of Independent Audit Regulators has released a global survey of audit inspection findings, identifying some of the most common problems that regulators have identified at auditing firms around the world during their inspections.

Effective end-of-year letters and other communication with tax prep clients are more than reminders that those clients should hire you to do 2012 returns.

Wayne Salpietro, director of product and social media marketing at data storage and cloud backup services provider Permabit Technology Corp., explains what processes can be adopted to ensure data protection strategies deployed at your organization remain viable.

Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, said Tuesday that House Republicans would introduce a bill to raise tax rates for millionaires as a “Plan B” in case his negotiations with President Obama on averting the fiscal cliff fail to produce an agreement.

The New Mexico Finance Authority has completed its probe of fake audits and said it was reforming its accounting practices as a result.

Top 100 Firm Sikich LLP added the public accounting and consulting firm, Hill & White LLC. The merger went into effect on December 1.

Marcum Search, a member of the Marcum Group of Companies, has acquired the North American offices of executive search firm Horton International LLC.

WeiserMazars LLP concludes its merger with Creative Health Concepts Inc.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged the media company TheStreet Inc., which publishes the financial news site TheStreet.com, and three of its executives with accounting fraud, accusing them of artificially inflating company revenues and misstating their operating income to investors.

Tim Wilson has been promoted to national industry partner at BKD LLP’s National Construction & Real Estate Group.