Coronavirus

The CPA Exam testing administrator, joined by NASBA, confirmed the move that will re-open exam testing centers, based on local safety guidelines, on a rolling basis.

The auditing profession is responding to the novel coronavirus pandemic by adjusting how it conducts audits, and that’s evident in the Center for Audit Quality, whose CEO, Julie Bell Lindsay, took over the leadership job when the priorities for the profession and the CAQ looked far different.

Just before the coronavirus roiled the economy, wealthy investors piled into funds that take advantage of a popular, two-year-old tax break meant to help poor communities.

Accountants share unique problems faced by four different industries.

Make note of what your firm is doing right – and wrong – through this crisis.

Difficult times hold up a mirror to your practice. What will you see?

The Enterprise Assessment platform is a cloud-based advisory tool for accountants to identify client needs, win new prospects and drive firm growth.

What you're charging clients is a delicate subject even in the best of times, and the current crisis makes it even more uncomfortable. Sarah Dobek of Inovautus Consulting offers advice on how to handle this complicated topic.

The Internal Revenue Service announced that it is delaying its Special Enrollment Examination tests for Enrolled Agents due to the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic shutting down its testing centers.

Starting in May, preparation will be free for police, firefighters, EMTs and health care workers.

The American Institute of CPAs offered suggestions on how the federal government’s Paycheck Protection Program should deal with forgiving loans.

The U.S. Treasury Department is planning to instruct people whose deceased relatives received coronavirus stimulus payments to return the money to the federal government, according to a department spokesman.

The State of Connecticut Insurance Department has launched an initiative to work with local accounting firms on a program to expand their presence in the captive insurance company market.

Accountants play a critical role in helping clients get relief.

State CPA society leaders share how accountants are responding to the pandemic — and the new opportunities it is creating

PricewaterhouseCoopers has developed a contact-tracing app as the Big Four firm looks forward to reopening its offices during the coronavirus pandemic and tries to help its clients safely open theirs as more states announce plans to gradually lift their stay-at-home orders.

The PPP isn't the only payroll-related way the federal government is responding to the coronavirus pandemic.

With states and cities facing the worst fiscal crisis in decades, a little-noticed provision in New York’s tax law could put amicable relations with neighboring states to the test.

SOX professionals are thinking about how to revise their risk management playbook for the year in response to the pandemic.