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International Accounting Standards Board chairman Hans Hoogervorst told attendees at a financial conference in Mexico City that the board plans to give accountants a period of relative stability to give them time to adjust to all the new standards.
March 8 -
The New York State Society of CPAs expressed its support for the Public Company Accounting Oversight Boards proposals for improving communications between auditors and audit committees, but objected to several of the new requirements.
March 8 -
The House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing to consider changing the tax treatment of closely held businesses in the context of overall tax reform efforts.
March 8 -
The financial services industry has always had pretty specific rules about testimonials, recommendations and advisory.
March 7 -
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President Obama pressed for business tax reform in a speech before a group of business executives.
March 7 -
Online accounting industry directory CPAdirectory.com has launched Ask a CPA, a free iPhone and iPad app designed to help consumers, businesses, and accounting and tax professionals with relevant tax and accounting related research and questions.
March 7 -
Staffing levels in accounting and finance are anticipated to stay fairly steady in the second quarter, according to a survey of CFOs by staffing company Robert Half International.
March 7 -
Cloud accounting and financial technology provider FinancialForce.com has released FinancialForce Accounting Spring ’12, with enhancements designed to address the key concerns of financial managers, including financial reporting, implementation speed and reporting efficiency.
March 7 -
The Financial Accounting Standards Board has added a new project to its agenda to re-examine the definition of a “nonpublic entity,” as part of its efforts to reach out more to private company constituents.
March 7 -
The Internal Revenue Service is expanding its Fresh Start initiative to help more unemployed and financially stressed taxpayers with installment agreements and relief from failure-to-file penalties.
March 7 -
The Institute of Management Accountants and cloud-based financial and ERP product provider NetSuite Inc. have released a 23-page report, offering insights into the greatest challenges faced by todays finance organizations, along with the steps that companies are taking to overcome them.
March 7 -
SAP AG is now offering SAP Business One OnDemand, which will allow partners to host the enterprise resource planning software and target smaller companies.
March 7 -
Employment in the private sector rose by 216,000 from January to February on a seasonally adjusted basis, according to the monthly national employment report from payroll giant ADP.
March 7 -
The odds of being single at some point during retirement are high and present unique challenges for both ever single retirees who never married and for those who become suddenly single in retirement due to divorce or death of a spouse.
March 7 -
The Internal Revenue Service has revised two forms used by bond issuers.
March 7 -
CCH has reorganized its publishing groups, creating and eliminating several positions at the accounting and tax research and software provider, while focusing more on the company's mobile technology development.
March 6 -
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Only months after announcing a re-branding strategy for all of its products, Sage North America is now moving forward with plans to offer customers subscription pricing on all mid-market enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management products, a move the company claims will offer partners and customers more revenue and pricing options, respectively.
March 6 -
Swiss lawmakers have passed a tax proposal seen as key to settling a U.S. probe into Swiss banks with hidden offshore accounts.
March 6