Accountants need to invest in technological change that will attract the next generation of accounting talent and reshape the economics of the field.

Accounting's most influential name the profession's biggest issues.

As part of this year's Top 100 Most Influential People survey, Accounting Today asked, "What is the most important issue currently facing the accounting profession?"

Steve Lockshin and Michael Kitces tied what they view as some mistaken assumptions around fees to the competitive need for more estate planning services.

Business executives are most worried about the risks from cybersecurity and third parties, but see opportunities for growth in the next few years.

Morningstar's study of this growing area of asset management suggests that 529 plan quality is rising, despite the research firm's lackluster grades for it.

Blindly accepting AI outputs, setting poor AI controls, failing to update processes when software changes: many AI problems unfortunately begin with the human, but it is also humans that can prevent them.

Audit teams with a greater number of women provide higher-quality audits at a lower cost, according to new research.

Small businesses in particular lost a total of 120,000 jobs.

Last month brought a slight uptick in wage and job growth at small businesses, payroll company Paychex reported.

Job satisfaction for female CPAs in tax, audit and CAS has improved by more than twice as much for female CPAs than it has for male CPAs in those areas.

Accounting firms are moving from "people businesses" to businesses filled with individual people.

Monotony may not sound like a business threat, but in finance, it's quietly eroding productivity from within.

The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration will examine the workforce reductions by the Trump administration and the elimination of paper checks.

Safe Harbor, a fintech serving cannabis and hemp operators, launched a platform with bookkeeping, payroll and CFO support.

Firms want candidates to have critical reasoning skills and not just be "robots" who follow processes and procedures blindly without questioning or interpretation.

The longest government shutdown in U.S. history has ended, but it could take days — and in some cases a week or more — before normal operations and paychecks resume.

The Internal Revenue Service increased the annual retirement plan contribution limits for 2026 thanks to cost-of-living adjustments for inflation.

The industry asked for and received a delay in the rule from the IRS in 2023. Now that it's going into effect, here are the key implications for sponsors and savers.

As the Senate advances a possible end to the 40-day government shutdown, the IRS is adjusting its plans amid a wave of layoffs and program closings.