Accountants are generally pessimistic about the economy as a whole, but feel much more confident when it comes to their own firm and clients.

Financial Cents, which makes practice management software for accountants, announced a new $9 a month plan for solo practitioners.

The proposal, under the Financial Data and Transparency Act of 2022, will make financial data more accessible, uniform and useful to the public.

Eligible professionals can now earn revenue share with QuickBooks Payments.

Accounting tech space sees major acquisitions this week; Bitwave releases Data Fusion tool for digital assets; TaxValet gains B-corp status; and other accounting tech news.

Many payroll systems claim to be cloud-native, yet fail to deliver the true benefits.

TaxBit announced the launch of enterprise-grade pricing feature within the TaxBit Accounting Suite.

Tax technology company Vertex announced its acquisition of European e-invoicing company Ecosio

Through Tipalti's plaform, Top 100 Firm CohnReznick will helps its clients improve efficiency of global payables processes.

IRIS and AccountsIQ announced a new partnership to provide an integrated suite of cloud-based payroll and HR solutions.

Plus, AI and the SMB landscape, the evolution of Chromebooks and other recent developments in technology.

When asked to rate how much they use generative AI tools on a scale from 1-10, accountants rated their overall use at 1.56

TaxDome announced the release of TaxDome AI, meant to facilitate document management tasks.

Firm leaders face the twin challenges of managing current operations while positioning themselves for future growth.

Top 75 Firm Blue will offer cybersecurity and IT services through a partnership with Pioneer Technology .

A study says that the most efficient way to use generative AI is a combination of robotic process automation and application programming interfaces, but it is also the most difficult to implement.

Abraham Shafi, former CEO of social media platform IRL, was charged with defrauding investors of $170 million by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Plus, CAQ releases generative AI guide for audit committees; US Bank announces new AR solution; and other accounting tech news.

Tax compliance solutions provider Avalara announced the release of its latest AI offering, a chatbot called Avi which can answer product questions, general tax questions, and troubleshoot issues.

PwC announced the rollout of its new ChatNational large language model AI for internal staff, which is designed exclusively for research questions versus the more general use ChatPwC