Coronavirus

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Withum's Jim Bourke shares how to make your staff more efficient and more effective while working away from the office.

History offers valuable lessons for anticipating the profession’s reaction to the pandemic in terms of mergers and acquisitions.

The Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department provided cross-border tax guidance Tuesday to provide relief to individuals and businesses affected by travel disruptions arising from the novel coronavirus pandemic.

Stimulus troubles; insuring biz operations; watch those dependents; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

As oil prices collapsed in the fallout from the coronavirus, Singapore-based Hin Leong's foundations crumbled.

As CPAs and financial professionals, we are trained to be financially astute, but now we have to master being emotionally astute.

The proposal would delay the effective date for one year for some private companies and nonprofits in applying the leases standard and for franchisor businesses in applying the revenue recognition standard.

To help taxpayers struggling with the pandemic, the service will suspend most collection activities.

In a down economy, international planning is even more important.

The American Institute of CPAs’ Auditing Standards Board has decided to defer the effective dates of seven of its recently issued Statements on Auditing Standards because of the novel coronavirus pandemic.

You can still reach out to prospects even in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.

Recipients of Social Security benefits, as well as railroad retirement and veterans benefits recipients, will need to act fast.

The Institute of Internal Auditors has stopped most of its in-person activities, including training, during the COVID-19 pandemic and will instead do online testing on a temporary basis for its certification exams.

Firms need to start by identifying which clients matter most to them, and then reaching out to them, according to Sarah Dobek of Inovautus Consulting.

Two Senate Democrats are criticizing a little-known provision of the CARES Act stimulus package that would provide a tax break mostly to wealthy taxpayers, suspending excess business losses for prior tax years.

The International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board released its 2020-2023 strategy and 2020-2021 work plan, while acknowledging that the COVID-19 pandemic could throw those plans out of whack.

In normal times, ideally no one should be let go unless they are just not good. In these times, being practical means some may need to go. How do you decide?

Small and midsized firms need to prepare for a world of reduced liquidity and lower organic growth.

The Securities and Exchange Commission recently voted to exempt many smaller public companies from the Sarbanes-Oxley requirement for auditor attestations of their internal controls over financial reporting, but many companies have been able to bypass those audits anyway.