Daniel Hood

A subcommittee of the House of Representatives’ Committee on Small Business held a hearing today to discuss the value of using the cash basis of accounting in small businesses, and whether they should be required to use the accrual basis.

We're all familiar with the shortcomings of the keyboards on most mobile devices, and we're also all familiar with the ease of dashing off notes on a yellow pad. LectureNotes avoids the worst of the former by importing the best of the latter into the Android universe.

If you're looking for a job (or an employee), you need to go where they are -- and more and more often, they're on Indeed.

Accounting Today is issuing a call for nominations for its 2014 Top 100 Most Influential People in Accounting list.

The iPhone and iPad mobile reporting and analytics app lets you grab data from just about any source, interact with and format it, and then share it in a number of different views.

The problem with conversations is that they're ephemeral: People get together, they talk, sometimes they come up with a brilliant idea, more often they don't, but either way, no one's keeping track. Yammer can help.

The average accounting firm is spending less on its marketing than it should, according to a recent survey.

The CPA brand remains “incredibly strong,” according to American Institute of CPAs president and CEO Barry Melancon, but the profession still faces challenges.

After several months of decline, accountants’ confidence in the prospects for economic growth saw a sharp uptick, according to the June edition of Accounting Today’s Accountants Confidence Index.

Developing accountability in your staff is simple, consultant John Spence told a gathering of accountants here -- but that doesn’t mean it’s easy.

While firms that are pioneers in adopting technology outpace their peers in other ways, too, accountants don’t necessarily need to be on the cutting edge in all things to grow.

In an annual review, only two IRS violations of Fair Tax Collection Practices were discovered, according to a recent report.

Broker-dealer HD Vest Investment Services announced that its VestAdvisor Select portfolio management platform has reached over $1 billion in assets in the 19 months since its launch.

Your firm’s wireless network may well represent a tempting target for hackers and criminals, an expert told accountants at a recent event.

There are all kinds of ways to create strong passwords. (We even ran an article about one fairly easy method recently.) But if you're like most people -- if you're like us -- you're not likely to use them. And why should we, when there's LastPass?

With 11 overall new Securities and Exchange Commission clients and a net gain of eight, Top 10 Firm BDO led the nation’s large firms in the first quarter of 2014.

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Accounting firms need to dive into the digital future right now, according to Intuit's David Bergstein, because their clients and their competitors already are.

Accounting firms are full of barriers to growth, many of which are invisible, and some of which may spring from the owners themselves, according to growth consultant Angie Grissom.

Broker/dealer HD Vest Financial Services Inc. has launched a proprietary tool to help its affiliated advisors integrate client tax information into their financial plans.