Commercial banking

The IRS is pushing back filing and payment deadlines for individuals and businesses in the state affected by severe storms, flooding and landslides.

A CAS practice is almost tailor-made for the needs and interests of today's young professionals.

Joe Carufe is a CAS evangelist and co-founder of Good Measure, a fast-growing cloud bookkeeping firm known for its people-first culture and operational rigor. With over a decade scaling CAS practices and onboarding 500+ firms at Karbon, he helps accounting leaders design modern, flexible firms that attract top talent and deliver high-impact client outcomes.

Here are six areas in which small business owners are feeling pressure where your advisory services may help them.

Aleisha Donald is a partner consultant at Xero.

Emma Bienias is managing director of Stout, a global advisory firm specializing in corporate finance, accounting and transaction advisory, valuation, financial disputes, claims, and investigations.  She has a background in performing valuation engagements for various purposes including financial reporting, tax valuations, business reorganizations, pre-acquisition diligence, post-acquisition disputes, fairness and solvency opinions and other management planning and corporate-related matters. Emma has experience providing expert litigation support for analyses of economic damages resulting from the infringement or misappropriation of intellectual property rights. She has performed damage analyses that included consideration of unjust enrichment, loss profits, and reasonable royalty. Emma also combines financial, market and competitive information to value intellectual property for a variety of objectives such as regulatory compliance, licensing and sale transactions, and securing financing for corporate acquisitions and expansion.

Alessio Alionço is the founder and CEO of Pipefy, a leading process management and AI platform. Brazilian-born Alionco is a high-impact global leader and has grown Pipefy from its founding in 2015 to a company with hundreds of customers worldwide. Pipefy delivers a business process automation platform that improves productivity and efficiency, centralizes data, and standardizes processes for teams in insurance.

CAS expert Kane Polakoff digs deep into the current staff of client advisory services, and how this fast-growing service offering is rapidly evolving.

The multitrillion-dollar tax law signed last month hikes the tax on income from endowments for some of the wealthiest private schools.

The 2025 Fastest-Growing Firms forecast what issues they — and the profession — will encounter in the near future.