Daniel Hood

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.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has released for public comment a staff consultant paper on standard-setting related to auditing accounting estimates and fair value measurements.

Libra Services has released LibraTax, a new software solution that lets individuals and businesses that have transacted business in Bitcoin and other digital currencies to calculate their tax obligations.

A post-implementation review conducted by the Financial Accounting Foundation of a 2004 accounting standard on share-based payment transaction said that it achieved its purpose and provides useful information to financial statement users.

Cloud accounting vendor FreshBooks has launched its FreshBooks Accountant Center, which gives accountants a secure portal to access their clients’ data and interact more closely with them.

The American Institute of CPAs announced that it recently enrolled its 400,000th member.

Apps like DocuSign bring the oldest authentication method in the world into the 21st century.

Young accountants entering the profession and small firms may both be missing a huge opportunity, according to leading consultant Darren Root.

Accounting Today is now accepting submissions for its annual Managing Partner Elite list of top firm leaders.

This is one of those head-slapping, of-course-my-smartphone-should-do that apps: It's already got a camera, and cameras are basically scanners, so it's only natural that your phone can now be a scanner, thanks to CamScanner.

Broker-dealer HD Vest has released VestVision, a software solution that lets advisors and clients establish and prioritize financial goals and then track progress toward them.