Technology

Whether it’s minimizing the number of administrative tasks that take up large chunks of their day or more access to data to help inform a decision, accountants and bookkeepers can benefit.

Researchers are seeing a new type of phishing attack embedded within documents sent via email to tax professionals.

SEC reporting companies reported their highest levels of cybersecurity problems since 2011, according to a recent Audit Analytics report.

The finance and accounting sector is suffering as accountants are often expected to do more with less.

The Internal Revenue Service has contracted with Ripcord, a startup company that does robotic digitization of documents and records, to pilot test a program to digitize filings of Form 709.

The payroll and HCM solutions provider has added enhancements; Surgent releases an audit-focused course; and other updates from the accounting technology arena.

The Governmental Accounting Standards Board set the effective date for the GASB 87 leases standard at June 15, 2021, after pushing it back by 18 months during the pandemic, but many state and local governments are apparently behind on implementing it.

Experts in auditing imagine the ways this core service of the profession will be radically different in a decade.

Information security and digital assets are among the priorities named by the commission’s Division of Examinations for 2022.

The eternal progress in technology empowers both fraudsters and those who are looking to catch them.