Financial reporting

Great partners make great firms

In the third installment of the results of Accounting Today and Cetera Financial Specialists' "Seeking Success" survey, we examine the obstacles accounting firms have faced in launching financial planning and wealth management practices.

Look at your firm, and look at the issues, and decide which are most likely to affect you, your staff, and your clients, and on what time frame.

Tax planning for individuals before year-end

A roundup of firm mergers and acquisitions from the previous month

Five things to think about when you think about the cloud

We're back because a momentary lull allowed us to produce a new column about an old issue.

Books, software, hardware and services for accountants

Both public and private companies saw an increase in the auditing fees they paid to outside firms, according to a recent survey by Financial Executives International.

The Internal Revenue Service has released the final regulations for how it will release tax return information to the Department of Health and Human Services to assess a taxpayer's eligibility for help in buying health insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act.

The beginning of your succession planning needs to start with an honest evaluation and plan to address the business fundamentals associated with the new economy.

Consider a different way of funding future generations

Why serve the individual, when you can serve the whole family?

The Association for Accounting Marketing will be hiring its first chief executive officer, representing the first staff hire for the national trade association.

Geralyn Hurd and Crowe Horwath's drive to differentiate

A roundup of news from the accounting profession in the previous month

The second part of our look at firm networks and associations explores what happens when their member firms merge

Tips and tactics for the new wave of digital tools

Ideas for tax planning as 2013 begins to wind up

A roundup of tax news from the previous month