Practice management

CPA Firm Management Association appoints board of directors; EY names new Louisville office managing partner; and more news from across the profession.

Plus, Ramp touts 1099 solution; Certinia's winter release includes automation, insights, operations; and other accounting tech news and updates.

Accountants need to invest in technological change that will attract the next generation of accounting talent and reshape the economics of the field.

Accounting's most influential name the profession's biggest issues.

As part of this year's Top 100 Most Influential People survey, Accounting Today asked, "What is the most important issue currently facing the accounting profession?"

Platform Accounting Group expanded in Oregon; Springline Advisory acquired Actuarial Resources; Sorren added RTO; Patrick Accounting and Tax Services is buying Knight Home Care Financial.

Steve Lockshin and Michael Kitces tied what they view as some mistaken assumptions around fees to the competitive need for more estate planning services.

The council's inaugural in-person meeting will be held on Tuesday, Dec. 16 from 12:00 p.m. EST through 1:30 p.m. EST at Sax's New York City offices.

Congregations are enabling automation to make stewardship easier to verify and faster to report on.

Successful companies in the future will rely on employees with an entrepreneurial spirit.

Growth was led by tax (7%) and advisory (4%), followed by audit and assurance (3%) and business services outsourcing (2%).

Accounting Today has issued a call for submissions for its 2026 Top New Products report.

Andersen Group, the U.S. arm of the firm that succeeded the shuttered accounting giant Arthur Andersen, is seeking an initial public offering.

The Chicago-based firm has acquired New York- based accounting firm Farkouh, Furman & Faccio.

HTL International netted the most new Securities and Exchange Commission engagements in the third quarter of 2025, followed by CBIZ and KPMG.

PKF O'Connor Davies, a Top 25 Firm based in New York, has added Wolf Maryles & Associates, also headquartered in Manhattan.

By helping business owners shore up their metrics, you can help them boost their enterprise value and add more value to your relationship.

Blindly accepting AI outputs, setting poor AI controls, failing to update processes when software changes: many AI problems unfortunately begin with the human, but it is also humans that can prevent them.

Anthony Pugliese of the IIA discusses the new and perennial risks and challenges facing companies, and the new resources the IIA is rolling out to help.

CEO Jeff Call is ramping up the use of artificial intelligence at the Top 100 Firm, and helping clients adjust to changes from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.