Dr. Chandra Bhansali of AccountantsWorld talks about his company's cloud-based accounting software for practitioners and their clients, in an interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Dan Hood.

AccountantsWorld CEO Dr. Chandra Bhansali discusses technology changes in the field of accounting and how the cloud is encouraging collaboration between accountants and their clients, in an interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Dan Hood.

Chris Rush of ADP discusses the changing demographics, technology and regulation in the accounting profession and how firm leaders can deal with succession planning, recruitment, retention, cloud computing, and the Affordable Care Act, in an interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Dan Hood.

George Farrah, executive editor of Bloomberg BNA Tax & Accounting, discusses changes in the accounting profession and the technology and recruiting strategies used by firms, in an interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Dan Hood.

Xero kicked off Xerocon, the cloud accounting software provider’s North American user conference, by announcing new partnerships, including relationships with Apple and Avalara.

Sage announced the launch of the Sage Foundation, with a model of charitable donations and employee volunteerism.

Intuit introduced online resource FirmoftheFuture.com, a hub of curated content for accountants that includes step-by-step guides and resource links.

Teresa Mackintosh of Wolters Kluwer discusses how technology can help accountants deal with the challenges they are facing, in an interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Dan Hood.

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Cloudsourced will allow HPC to expand its services into cloud integration consulting and provide virtual back-office solutions to small businesses.

The Internal Revenue Service has agreed to change its policy on identity theft and provide victims with copies of the fraudulent tax returns that have been filed under their names by scammers.

A little advance planning can help you make the right choices in payroll.

Bill Price, CFO at the accounts payable and payment automation company MineralTree has identified eight issues that companies looking to implement mobile accounting – and bring their teams into the digital age – must consider.

New software, hardware, books and other tools for accountants

As the debate goes on about how to curb the increasing incidence of taxpayer identity theft in the U.S., members of BKR International discussed their experiences during the recent tax filing season, as well as ways to mitigate future risk and help clients respond to fraudulent activity should it occur.

Like the rest of the world, accounting professionals are quickly adopting mobile technology.

ACL announced it has completed the acquisition of Denver-based digital design firm Artletic.

On the heels of a disclosure this week that identity thieves were able to access 104,000 tax returns through the Internal Revenue Service’s Get Transcript application, a new report finds that the IRS is improving its identification of fraudulent tax returns involving identity theft.

Small form-factor PCs aren’t anything new. They have been available for years, though in the past they tended to be built around low-power, not-so-fast CPUs.

The Internal Revenue Service warned of a huge data breach of its online Get Transcript application that allowed the tax returns of approximately 104,000 taxpayers to be accessed by identity thieves.