Data and information management

The IRS needs to take further steps to improve its security program deficiencies, according to a new report.

When a client starts sending fake invoices to vendors and customers, the instinct is to reset the password and turn on multifactor authentication. That's not enough.

AI's infamous tendency to occasionally generate false information, also known as "hallucinations," remains untamed by even the world's largest accounting firms.

Hundreds of Internal Revenue Service employees retained their laptops and smartphones accepting a voluntary buyout offer from the IRS last year, according to a new report.

If the data belongs to the business owner, why is it so hard for them, and for the accountants who serve them, to actually get it?

For the first time in history, organizations have technology capable of understanding the information contained within their records, not simply storing it.

Tech stacks may be leaking more information than firms realize due to terms and conditions that give vendors permission to access and use it how they see fit.

AI specialists share their experiences with an AI agent doing something they did not want it to do — and how they fixed it.

Despite high confidence from leaders in AI, 26% of executives said internal audits have detected AI errors that reached external audiences or the board.

While almost everyone is talking the talk on AI governance and control, recent data suggests far fewer are walking the walk, to the detriment of organizations.

The Internal Revenue Service's effort to reduce the amount of paper it deals with may be exposing taxpayer data to unwanted security vulnerabilities.

If things continue at this pace, it won't be surprising if CPA firms have a 40-to-one agent-to-human ratio in the near future and need a new operating model.

AI technology is new, so it feels like it should demand a new kind of governance. It doesn't. The profession already has the answer inhouse.

AI severs confidence from correctness. Finding the areas that require scrutiny is much harder precisely because the output looks excellent everywhere.

Tax amnesty programs; protecting your practice; unidentified tax payments; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

The traditional spreadsheet model of financial planning is officially broken. It did not break quietly, and it was not broken by a single event.

The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration report highlighted a practice that contributed to the departures of high-ranking IRS officials.

The Internal Revenue Service is restructuring the framework of its Security Summit public-private partnership to fend off tax-related identity theft.