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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie talked about his budget battles with New Jersey lawmakers during an entertaining speech in New York on Tuesday.

Former President George W. Bush said Tuesday that he wished the Bush tax cuts were not named for him.

Elizabeth A. Higgins has joined the Shelton office of Top 100 Firm BlumShapiro as director of business development.

A new survey conducted for the American Institute of CPAs found that 41 percent of respondents selected cutting back on eating out as their most likely response to a financial pinch.

Some H&R Block offices are offering free filing of tax extensions now through the April 17 tax filing deadline, the company said Monday.

Shoeboxed has become the latest member of the CloudSolutions Alliance, a CPA-focused group formed in 2010 with the goal of educating and gaining further access to firms who would be most interested in their services.

The odds are stacked against corporations whose disputes with the Internal Revenue Service go all the way to the Supreme Court, a new study found.

The commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service warned on Thursday of "a real disaster" for taxpayers next year should Congress miss a December 31 deadline to decide on billions in major tax provisions.

The rapid growth of Islamic finance is increasing pressure on the industry to enter the accounting mainstream, by seeking guidance from the International Accounting Standards Board, the global body which sets the tone for bookkeeping in conventional finance.

A new study has found that the Form 990 tax returns filed by tax-exempt organizations frequently expose the Social Security numbers of tax preparers, donors, employees, scholarship recipients and others to the public.

Accounting Today has issued a call for speakers for its 3rd Annual Growth & Profitability Summit, which will be held this year in Boca Raton, Fla., on October 28-30

The April edition of Accounting Today's monthly Accountants Confidence Index reversed a two-month decline, showing positive expectations for the short- and mid-term for the firs time in 2012.

From week to week, we see occasional reports that banks aren’t lending to businesses, and that businesses can’t get the money they need to grow and to create jobs. Whether that’s true remains a little murky, but frankly, I worry more about businesses borrowing too much money.

Joanne S. Barry, executive director of the New York State Society of CPAs, has been named the 2012 Outstanding Association Executive by the New York Society of Association Executives

Recent firm alliances, memberships, charitable activities and more.

Recent accounting firm hires, promotions, awards and more.

IMGCAP(1)]Check out the digital edition of the April 2012 issue of Accounting Today.

President Obama signed into law on Thursday the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, also known as the JOBS Act, which lowers the regulatory and auditing barriers for companies to seek funding and enter the capital markets.

The Internal Revenue Service is not making consistent use of the codes that are supposed to indicate which IRS enforcement actions have led to taxpayers paying their outstanding taxes due, according to a new government report.

Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Doug Shulman described in a speech Thursday how the agency is using information from its tax preparer regulation initiative to identify practitioners who are showing patterns of tax fraud.