Partnerships

The American Institute of CPAs has sent a letter to the Multistate Tax Commission recommending changes in a proposed approach to sourcing of partnership income.

Accounting and financial reporting solutions provider SoftLedger announced a revamped partnership program with reduced pricing for certain participating firms.

Experts at a recent conference laid out the pressures on accountants — and why firms can't afford to be passive about them.

The broader consulting services industry is battling a slowdown in demand for its traditional services, with many of them cutting jobs to tide over the slump.

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Today's accounting firms are emerging from a period of severely restricted options.

Firm leaders experience frustration when their partners and managers resist strategic initiatives, but they will be able to work through it by understanding what resistance means,

When you protect your staff from problematic clients through higher pricing or firing clients who can't work well with the firm, you send a strong message.

Outside investment has disrupted a century of how things have always been done in accounting, and it might not sit well with the stated direction of many firms.

Ownership in a CPA firm is more expensive today than it ever has been. Is it worth it?

SALT and the bill; digital taxes worldwide; retaining clients; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

Firms can benefit when more partners have an administrative assistant to help with their work.

Public accounting is a vibrant and strong profession and also a business, as shown in data from the latest rankings on firm revenues, partners and staff size.

The Top 75 Firm based in Atlanta has steered clear of private equity funding so far and plans to remain independent, despite frequent calls and emails.

Firms risk being left behind if they don't carefully navigate the current transformative era, experts warn.

What does a firm need to know to determine its interest in PE or another external capital partner? Here are 10 critical questions for CPAs and some vignettes.

The Treasury and IRS plan to withdraw regulations that labeled basis-shifting transactions among partnerships and related parties as "transactions of interest."

How about an entrepreneurial path that puts you in an environment where you can be strategic and innovative for the good of the firm?

In an era dominated by private equity and merger mania, firms that want to stand alone have to make that a conscious — and continual — choice.