Scott Fleszar of Thomson Reuters Tax & Accounting discusses how accountants and tax practitioners can continue to provide value to their clients as advisors, in an interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Dan Hood.

Accountants’ top technology-related priority is preventing security threats, according to the 25th Anniversary North American Top Technology Initiatives Survey.

Faced with steep budget cuts, the Internal Revenue Service directed more taxpayers to consult Web sites and its mobile app for answers to their questions this year rather than visiting the IRS’s walk-in Taxpayer Assistance Centers or calling its phone lines, while also using technology to detect tax refund fraud.

SaaS expense management provider Tallie has partnered with Practice Engine, a supplier of practice management systems to professional firms.

Doblin, Deloitte’s innovation and design practice, released a Ten Types of Innovation app for iPad, providing interactive tools and processes to help businesses discover, develop and test new growth opportunities.

SAP released a new SAP Revenue Accounting and Reporting application to address requirements derived from the new revenue accounting standards.

Main Street Solutions has introduced ClientLink Pro, cloud-based software that allows accountants and tax professionals to share documents and collaborate with clients.

Host Analytics launched the Host Analytics Modeling Cloud, a new module in its cloud EPM suite.

Avalara announced the appointment of Michael Turner as the cloud-based tax compliance solution provider’s first chief marketing officer.

Workflow was identified as one of the top technology challenges in the second annual Accounting Firm Operations and Technology survey ebook.

Practice management software provider Office Tools Professional announced a renaming and rebranding of the company to Office Tools.

More than 20 years ago, QuickBooks and other desktop software products made bookkeeping unimaginably more efficient.

SplendidCRM Software announced the release of their Enterprise edition version 9.1 with integrated bi-directional synchronization with QuickBooks Online.

When it comes to social media communications, it’s not why or when…it’s how and where.

Avalara announced its Partner of the Year award winners, bestowed to the cloud-based tax compliance solutions provider’s top-performing partners.

Only 37 percent of CFOs and finance leaders say their organization’s approach to annual budgeting is valuable, and, of those, all of them think it needs be improved, according to a new report.

Sage has named Jennifer Warawa global vice president of product marketing for accountants.

The controversial car ride app Uber is appearing on an increasing number of employee expense reports so far this year, according to a new analysis.

The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants has introduced ACCA-X, a set of online learning courses for accountants and financial professionals.

Toshiba Corp. fell the most in more than a year after the company said it would appoint a committee to investigate possible problems with its accounting.