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Archived Issues:   11/16/2009 11/02/2009 October 19, 2009 October 5, 2009 September 21, 2009 September 1, 2009 August 17, 2009 July 20, 2009 June 15, 2009 June 1, 2009

 

• Top of the News



• Full agenda at Council

  By Bill Carlino

  The road to IFRS, ongoing regulatory reform and sustainability headline AICPA confab

• Becoming your own boss (Unabridged)

  By Liz Gold

  Opportunities abound for young CPAs venturing out on their own

• IN BRIEF

  IASB not waiting for U.S.; Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu revenues hit by economy; and FASB launches nonprofit advisory committee.

• The tax staff crunch goes on

  By Roger Russell

  Good help will be as hard to find as ever next tax season

• Broker-dealers weather the crisis

  By Richard Stolz

  What they did - and what they're doing differently

• Opinion

• Socially secure?

  By Bill Carlino, Editor-in-Chief

  Social Security reform, once among the hopeful centerpieces of the George W. Bush presidency, has been buried and long forgotten under a slew of proposals such as ObamaCare.

• LETTER: Miller & Bahnson on target

  I could not find a fit in the three large firms where I invested my career over the past seven years, and it took an abrupt change and my reflecting to realize why I couldn't fit in.

• Tensions are rising from IRS victory in Textron case

  By Sara Shanahan

  The First Circuit Court of Appeals' ruling in U.S. v. Textron is creating a lot of uncertainty.

• Crisis Center

• CRISIS NEWS

  Crowe unveils app for ARRA; and internal audit staff impacted by recession.

• Out from underneath

  By Howard Hook

  Investor strategies for capitalizing on the economic downturn

• Tax Practice

• TAX NEWS

  Manual refunds error-prone; judge backs GE in IRS dispute; IRS ID prevention efforts fall short; IRS issued over $20 million in erroneous refunds.

• Battle lines form over LIFO

  By Roger Russell

  Lawmakers and industry are choosing sides on repeal efforts

• TAX STRATEGY: Developments in limited liability companies

  By George G. Jones and Mark A. Luscombe

  Limited liability companies continue to grow in popularity as a choice of business entity.

• IRS mulls limiting sole-proprietor loss deductions

  About a quarter of all sole-proprietor businesses report losses on their tax returns, but many are doing so by understating their income or overstating their expenses, leading to billions of dollars in lost tax revenue, according to a new government report.

• Low inflation eases tax bracket changes

  Tax rate brackets and various tax benefits will remain unchanged or change only slightly in 2010 due to low inflation, and many pension plan limitations will remain unchanged, according to the Internal Revenue Service.

• Assurance

• ASSURANCE BRIEFS

  Companies want SEC to approve IFRS roadmap.

• ACCA: Standards needed for climate change

  The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants recommends in a new report that environmental regulators should work with international accounting standard-setters to develop a universal climate change reporting standard for organizations of all sizes.

• SEC 5-yr. plan backs global standards

  The Securities and Exchange Commission has released a draft of a five-year strategic plan that calls for a single set of high-quality global accounting standards.

• THE SPIRIT OF ACCOUNTING: The AICPA and G-20 on convergence: Lots of supply, not much demand

  By Paul B.W. Miller and Paul R. Bahnson

  We don't know about the rest of you in the profession's rank and file, but we're feeling steamrollered over "convergence," a code word meaning hastily dumping the independent Financial Accounting Standards Board and embracing the vulnerable International Accounting Standards Board.

• Financial Planning

• PFP BRIEFS

  Better advice could reduce retirement plan fees; IRS creates retirement plan tool for small business; and change to Roth rules prompts financial consultations.

• When every car is a purple car

  By Garrett R. D'Alessandro and Steven Denike

  Asset allocation and diversification in an atypical market

• Technology

• New tools to help clients wake up from the sales and use tax nightmare

  By Ted Needleman

  Software systems for handling sales and use tax are better - and more important to your clients - than ever

• TECH BRIEFS

  FASB beefs up XBRL features in Codification; new Simply Accounting 2010; CPA2Biz site helps firms expand client services; Inovium upgrades billing and collections system.

• BOOMER'S BLUEPRINT: Hold your partners accountable

  By L. Gary Boomer

  Managing an accounting firm is not easy for a number of reasons, not only because of the nature of ownership, but also because partners do not usually commit to allowing themselves to be managed.

• Lean, mean and ready for the future

  By Daniel Hood

  The 2009 Technology Pacesetters position themselves for recovery

• The 2009 Technology Pacesetters

• Practice Resources

• PRACTICE NEWS

  California adopts 150-hour rule; Thomson Reuters launches new marketing blog; AmerInst signs liability insurance deal; Plante & Moran partner in national calendar; Barfield Murphy named top small workplace.

• Searching for the right model

  By Gale Crosley

  In her first 'Pathways to Growth' column, Gale Crosley discovers the fundamentals of a strong model for firm growth

• A lesson from South of the Border

  By Barry Friedman

  Driving targeted clients and prospects to your Web site is critical

• Gender-friendly partnerships

  By Paul Finkle

  Solving a longstanding challenge for CPA firms

• NEW PRODUCTS: Software, Hardware & Services

• NEW PRODUCTS: Books

• FIRMS

• PEOPLE

• COMING EVENTS

• M&A WATCH

• Learning how to make rain

  By Brian Swanson

  Start developing your business development skills

• Accounting Tomorrow

• Tomorrow's news

  By Liz Gold

  In case you were wondering, Grant Thornton chief executive Ed Nusbaum has an iPod. And he loves it.