Regulation and compliance
Regulation
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While issues of immigration, trade and freedom of the Fourth Estate are dominating the media cycle, there are other significant areas of policy flux worthy of consideration as President Donald Trump’s term gathers momentum.
March 21 -
A majority of CPA senior business executives would like to have the Affordable Care Act repealed and replaced, according to a new poll by the American Institute of CPAs.
March 21 -
Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., and Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, want to make the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board’s actions against auditing firms and auditors more transparent.
March 21 -
The president warned House Republicans in a closed-door meeting Tuesday that many of them could be fired in the 2018 elections if they don’t approve legislation to replace the ACA.
March 21 -
The Governmental Accounting Standards Board has released an “omnibus” statement providing guidance on a wide range of accounting and financial reporting issues that have been uncovered during the implementation and application of some of GASB’s earlier pronouncements for state and local governments.
March 20 -
CorpNet CEO Nellie Akalp discusses how accountants can advise their business clients on the proper entity to use for legal and tax purposes.
March 20 -
Complicated rules will mean the industry will require tax and accounting services.
March 20 -
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released its highly anticipated scoring of the American Health Care Act this week, and many commentators have observed that several of the CBO's findings will make the legislation a tougher sell for Republicans.
March 17 -
Jolyon Maugham is hurrying through the streets of west London on his way to a meeting about Britain’s impending departure from the European Union. Even as he sidesteps dawdling tourists and dodges black cabs, Maugham is arguing about Brexit.
March 17 -
A few weeks after the national election, the Internal Revenue Service began to issue notices to employers who may have failed to comply with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
March 16 -
The Anti-Fraud Collaboration, a coalition of the Center for Audit Quality, Financial Executives International, the Institute of Internal Auditors and the National Association of Corporate Directors, has released a new report on how organizations on can deter fraud and improve financial reporting.
March 16 -
The Securities and Exchange Commission has given its approval to the 2017 GAAP Financial Reporting Taxonomy, the annually updated set of accounting standards built using computer-readable tags.
March 15 -
The Internal Revenue Service has issued its annual notice providing adjustments to the limitation on housing expenses at various locations abroad.
March 15 -
Frictionless tax compliance; ATGs; giving up bonus depreciation and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.
March 14 -
The very first tax breaks officially endorsed by the president don’t offer great news for most of his supporters.
March 14 -
Presidents have always needed to play a major role in this kind of change, the former congressman points out.
March 14 -
About 24 million more people would be uninsured under the Republican plan to replace Obamacare, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, creating a daunting political impediment for a proposal that would reduce the deficit by more than $300 billion.
March 13 -
The latest edition of the book covers recent changes from the Financial Accounting Standards Board.
March 13 -
Once health care is tamed, President Donald Trump and Congress will turn to other bears, such as the byzantine U.S. tax code. Conveniently, a new report has come out on legal tax avoidance.
March 10 -
More than halfway through the 2017 filing season, the IRS reported receiving 5.7 million fewer individual returns than at a comparable point last year.
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