Top 20 Firm Moss Adams LLP has launched FastForm, an online tool to help nonprofits and tax-exempt organizations fill out the complex Form 990.

One employee's trash is another's welcoming gift

A new Web site aims to draw attention to accountants in the Seattle area.

After looking into the role of the auditors in the recent accounting scandals at camera-maker Olympus Corp., Japan's Financial Services Agency ordered KPMG Azsa LLC and Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC to improve their systems -- though it noted that it had not found "any intentional acts or grave negligence."

The July edition of Accounting Today's Accountants Confidence Index marked a major milestone when, for the first time since it was started last fall, the short-term ACI reading indicated that the panel of accountants expect a contraction over the next three months.

An executive summary of our monthly ACI for July

Check out the digital edition of the July 2012 issue of Accounting Today.

Recent network memberships, awards, new Web sites and more from accounting firms across the country

Robert P. "Pat" Evans, CPA, CISA, has been named chairman of accountants liability insurer Camico, succeeding Louis J. Barbich, CPA, who served in the position for 26 years, since the company's founding in 1986.

The International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board has released for comment a consultation paper on its future work program for the next two years.

Accounting Today is now accepting candidates for its annual Top 100 Most Influential People in Accounting list.

The International Federation of Accountants has published 2012 editions of three handbooks from the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board, the International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants and the International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board.

We've opened our Accountant of the Month contest up again

Future firm leaders need a mix of personal guidance and outside support to keep them on track.

A former AICPA chair writes a letter to the editor criticizing columnists Miller & Bahnson

Columnists Miller & Bahnson send out two important messages, to FASB and to members of the AICPA

When its younger staff speak, Houston-based accounting firm MaloneBailey listens -- and acts

Highlights of the month in public accounting

The American Institute of CPAs marked the 125th anniversary of its founding during its Spring Meeting of Council.

Large commercial banks have decided that public accounting firms, despite their typically modest borrowing needs, are highly desirable customers.