The American Institute of CPAs has installed William Balhoff as its new chairman at its Fall Meeting of Council.

Estate planning for foreigners living in the U.S.

Picking the right new broker-dealer requires careful thought

Anchin, Block & Anchin knows a thing or two about good eats. The New York-based Top 100 Firm always had a hand in the food and beverage industry, but it really started to stir things up when it decided to cater to the niche sector.

A roundup of practice management-related news

10 easy ways to get more clients

Gale Crosley has five questions you should ask before a firm merger

A roundup of accounting news

Banks and CPAs are looking at each other in new ways

More and more companies are coming under scrutiny from tax authorities

Will implementation of the Affordable Care Act be a permanent burden on the Internal Revenue Service, an organization already strapped for cash? And how will it affect preparers and taxpayers?

A roundup of technology-related news

Accountants counsel clients on Obamacare exchanges

There's never been such a wealth of tax and accounting information available -- you just need to figure out how to access it

A roundup of assurance-related news

FASB's proposed lease accounting rules really do try to get more useful information about assets and liabilities into financial statements. However, we don't think it's strong enough, because it doesn't cleanly address the No. 1 priority issue that asks whether off-balance-sheet financing has any legitimacy in financial reporting.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board and the International Accounting Standards Board are revealing further details about their long-stalled plans for creating a Disclosure Framework to help accountants decide on which notes to include with financial statements.

Allen M. Abrams, co-founder of the Chicago-based accounting firm Ostrow Reisin Berk & Abrams, Ltd., has died after a brief illness at the age of 81, on Oct. 27, 2013, his firm announced.

Russell Golden, the recently appointed chairman of the Financial Accounting Standards Board, discussed the road ahead for FASB after the board marked its 40th anniversary earlier this year as it continues its efforts to reach a consensus with the International Accounting Standards Board on their remaining convergence projects.

After dropping in September, the accounting profession’s expectations for economic growth rebounded this month, according to the October edition of Accounting Today’s monthly Accountants Confidence Index.