Cloud computing

According to Doug Sleeter, taking steps to ramp up your tech know-how is good for your firm’s current business and for the value of your firm in the future.

CEO says Pramata will focus on helping customer companies address revrec standards in coming years.

As the cloud hype dissipates, more practical realities are taking hold.

Company integrates its Pegg artificial intelligence technology with Sage One.

Accounting software for small and medium businesses integrates with popular online productivity suite.

The return of the spreadsheet, the triumph of the cloud and other trends to look for in technology for accounting and finance departments.

Just like clouds in the physical world, the technology cloud is dynamic and evolving. This constant change begs the question, how can your accounting firm benefit from it?

Building technology into your hiring narrative can be the best way to find and retain employees.

The online accounting software provider Xero formally debuted a new set of points and perks recently.

Online bookkeeping and business applications are taking more and more of the market.

Accountants know all too well that tax prep services have become commoditized, with intense pricing pressure and clients who aren’t firm-loyal. Is it possible to turn around the trend and differentiate your tax prep services?

Intuit Inc. has updated its layout to provide consistency across all its QuickBooks products, including QB Online, QB Online Accountant, QB Self-Employed, Payroll and Payments.

Hauppauge, N.Y.AccountantsWorld, which makes cloud accounting solutions, has named Hitendra R. Patil its new director of practice development.

FloQast, which makes close management software, has released new product capabilities tailored for outsourced finance and accounting firms.

A request by the Internal Revenue Service for user data from a bitcoin exchange highlights simmering tensions between compliance and customer privacy for financial institutions and will test how those demands are balanced in the young field of cryptocurrency.

The Internal Revenue Service is looking for information on bitcoin users from Coinbase, one of the largest bitcoin exchanges in the U.S., as part of its efforts to uncover possible tax evasion.

Deloitte has released new tax data analytics tools to help companies manage, track and report state net operating losses.

Software reseller BroadPoint and software company Serenic have partnered to deliver the latter’s Navigator for reporting, budgeting, fund accounting and grant management.

KPMG has achieved the Cloud Elite designation within Oracle’s OPN Cloud Program, as well as advanced specialization recognition and six Oracle Excellence Awards.

Certify, which makes travel and entertainment expense management software, has redesigned its T&E expense reporting.