Daniel Hood

After a slight dip in September, the Accountants Confidence Index continued its downward trajectory, with both the short- and the mid-term measures declining, and short-term expectations dropping into contractionary territory.

Audit fees increased slightly in 2013, according to a new report, but remain lower as a percentage of revenue than in 2004.

U.S. investors’ confidence in a variety of aspects of U.S. markets has reached new highs, according to the Center for Audit Quality’s 2014 Main Street Investor Survey.

It's a good time to be hired -- and to hire.

Top 15 Firm BKD LLP has expanded its presence in Dallas with the acquisition of loan review services firm Kacinski & Associates Inc.

Buffalo CPA Jerry Mazurkiewicz has been named the 2014 winner of the Michael H. Urbach CPA Community Builders Award by the New York State Society of CPAs.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has sanctioned a software company for having inadequate internal controls.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged a Silicon Valley software company and two former executives in an accounting fraud where timesheets were falsified to hit quarterly financial targets.

Top 10 Firm CohnReznick LLP has signed a letter of intent to combine with Bethesda, Md.-based Top 100 Firm Watkins Meegan LLC on November 1.

The Accountants Confidence Index took a slight dip in September, countering a slight rise in August -- though both the short-term and the mid-term figures remained in sync.

Accounting Today has announced the 2014 Best Accounting Firms to Work For.

The deadline for Accounting Today’s 2014 Managing Partner Elite list is rapidly approaching, with final submissions due this Friday, Sept. 5.

Two authors want to lay new responsibilities on the profession

Adding a set of simple sentences to your firm’s engagement letters could go a long way to making your firm safer from lawsuits, a legal expert told accountants at the Midwest Accounting Show.

Many of the biggest concerns for accounting firms in the future relate to people issues, according to Illinois CPA Society president and CEO Todd Shapiro.

A post-implementation review of an accounting standard for state and local governments on the impairment of capital assets and insurance recoveries found that it provides important information to users, but does not resolve all the issues it was meant to address.

The Securities and Exchange Commission is bringing charges against a telecommunications equipment maker and two of its former executives for improperly recognizing as revenue over a million dollars’ worth of inventory.

Addappt will automatically update contact info in your electronic address book -- provided you can get your contacts to join in.

The Accountants Confidence Index got back into sync with an upward tick in July, after the short- and mid-term readings split in June.

U.S. taxpayers reported $9.1 trillion in adjusted gross income (less deficit) for tax year 2012, according to the most recent IRS Statistics of Income Bulletin.