Technology

Every year, TurboTax battles H&R Block for dominance in tax preparation, while smaller players fight over the rest of the market.

Accounting software for small and medium businesses integrates with popular online productivity suite.

The return of the spreadsheet, the triumph of the cloud and other trends to look for in technology for accounting and finance departments.

Accountants beware: Fraudsters are customizing phishing attacks with fake QuickBooks invoices and TurboTax notifications, warns Todd O’Boyle, the co-founder and chief technology officer of malware detection provider Percipient Networks.

Tax practitioners may spot a new 16-digit code on clients' W-2s this year, as part of an effort to fight tax-related ID theft.

MyFirmsApp, a U.K.-based technology development company, has gotten the go-ahead to use the technology powering Amazon’s Alexa voice-based assistant to develop artificial intelligence apps for accounting.

Accountants understand the importance of good cybersecurity practices in their own offices, given recent reports of attacks by identity thieves targeting client names and IDs.

Treasury Secretary nominee said one of his priorities if confirmed would be to increase staff and modernize technology at the Internal Revenue Service—a move that Republicans who control the agency’s budget may reject.

Relatively few companies are using dedicated fixed assets accounting software, according to a new survey, and are instead relying on homegrown spreadsheets and databases.

Just like clouds in the physical world, the technology cloud is dynamic and evolving. This constant change begs the question, how can your accounting firm benefit from it?