Practice management

AI is changing the way tax practitioners work in significant ways, but none of them involve massive job losses or shrinking demand for accountants and auditors.

The Top 50 Firm acquired The Hultquist Firm in Greenville, South Carolina, which will join as Milestone Advisors.

Edgefield Group has expanded its formerly private training for individual firms into publicly available CPE courses, as well as launched a new learning platform on using Microsoft Copilot for accounting workflows.

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Accounting firms that don't keep up with artificial intelligence risk falling behind their own clients, says Madeline Reeves, founder and CEO of Fearless Foundry.

Puzzle announces AI Suite for month-end close; MyCPE One announces CPE Wallet for automating CPE management; Sam's List rolls out Concierge Launch; and other accounting tech news and updates.

Plus, new partners at Plante Moran and Schneider Downs, a new CFO at EisnerAmper; and other firm and personnel news from across the profession.

Accounting firms have been fielding offers from a growing number of private equity investors as PE money continues to pour into the accounting sector.

Smolin, Lupin & Co. acquired Vitolo & Associates, expanding its advisory and accounting capabilities and growing its presence in New Jersey.

AI has raised the bar for what counts as good service in clients' eyes, meaning the humans will need to up their game, perhaps through the use of AI.

Financial reporting and automation solutions provider Inscope announced a new release that uses agentic AI to produce a review-ready disclosure checklist.

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-coded apps are changing the dynamics between software vendors and accounting firms, but the market impact so far has been small.

Judgment about property improvements used to be defined by personal biases and loose, anecdotal evidence. Financial tracking is changing that.

The Top 25 Firm acquired Mid-Atlantic Regional Leader Kreischer Miller in Horsham, Pennsylvania.

AI is shifting the economics of build-versus-buy as more firms turn to apps created not by software vendors but by code generators such as Claude, Replit, or Cursor.

The billable hour was always just a stand-in for something harder to measure. AI has finally made that obvious.

The time saved by using AI is being eroded by the time spent verifying its outputs.

Meaden & Moore, a Cleveland-based accounting, tax, advisory and forensic accounting firm, took an investment from private equity firm Unity Partners.

The Regional Leader acquired Harris, Greene LLP, an accounting firm in Irvine, California, expanding its footprint in Southern California.