Michael Cohn

Small businesses continued to hire more workers last month, but the pace of job growth is slackening, according to a new report.

BDO USA has re-elected Wayne Berson to a second term as CEO of the firm.

President Obama signed into law on Monday a two-year budget deal that Congress approved last week to raise the debt limit and avert a default. To help pay for it, the bill includes a provision that will make it easier for the Internal Revenue Service to audit large partnerships, including hedge funds, private equity firms and even accounting firms.

The American Institute of CPAs’ Financial Reporting Executive Committee has released for comment working drafts of revenue recognition implementation issues it has identified for the aerospace and defense industry and the investment asset management industry.

Deloitte has acquired Bonaccorso & Associates, a boutique accounting firm in Vaughan, Canada that serves small and midsize private companies with a focus on family businesses.

CliftonLarsonAllen has expanded its presence in Arizona by merging in a Tucson firm, Camp Lowell CPAs, and in Pennsylvania by acquiring KFMR Katz Ferraro McMurtry PC in Pittsburgh, effective Nov. 1, 2015.

PricewaterhouseCoopers Canada has bolstered its presence in British Columbia by combining practices with RHB Schmitz de Grace, a local chartered accounting firm based in Prince George, B.C.

KPMG LLP has acquired all of G2 FinTech’s U.S. tax software and intellectual property, including G2’s main product, TaxGopher.

Expense management software developer Certify has released its annual list of the most eye-opening business expenses submitted by travelers in the past year.

The Securities and Exchange Commission adopted final rules Friday to allow companies to offer and sell securities through crowdfunding.

Reporting of non-financial performance data is a problem for more than half of nonprofits, according to a new survey.

The vast majority of companies are not prepared for the major changes in accounting and business operations required by the new revenue recognition standard, according to a new survey.

Reducing the corporate tax rate to 25 to 30 percent would discourage profit shifting by multinationals, according to a new report from the Tax Foundation.

The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and the Institute of Management Accountants held a panel discussion at St. John’s University in New York on Wednesday evening to discuss how accountants and C-suite executives need to manage business risks.

The Internal Revenue Service said Thursday that federal tax preparers will soon pay less for a preparer tax identification number, or PTIN, and reminded non-credentialed tax preparers of major upcoming changes regarding which preparers can represent clients in matters before the IRS, starting next year.

Rep. Sam Johnson, R-Texas, has been named acting chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, the main tax-writing committee in Congress.

CPA.com, the American Institute of CPAs’ technology arm, has formed a strategic alliance with Vertex SMB to help CPA firms with sales tax compliance for their business clients.

Kabat, Schertzer, De La Torre, Taraboulos and Company, a Miami-based accounting and tax advisory firm, has merged in Roth, Jonas and Mittelberg, a nearly 50-year-old Miami firm.

Top 100 firm Citrin Cooperman has acquired Joel Popkin & Company, expanding its presence in New York City and adding new clients in the restaurant and nightclub business.

SurePayroll has released the October edition of its Small Business Scorecard just in time for Halloween.