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There are few words that make accountants more uncomfortable than robots, cloud software and artificial intelligence. These are the hot topics in financial technology, but they are also the very things that accountants fear will make them irrelevant.

Fairness at last for vets; troublesome forms; ‘non-employee withholding;’ and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

Surprisingly, the expansion into broader advisory services has been slow and limited at most firms.

Business owners are often surprised to learn they may be able to claim the research & development tax credit.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board is moving forward with a proposed accounting standards update to reclassify the stranded tax effects from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, although at least one investor group has some concerns.

With 2018 upon us and the extraordinary effort we’ve put in to get us past the public company deadline for the new revenue recognition standards, I’d like to highlight three longer-term considerations for companies to keep in mind as they continue to report and operate under the new rules.

There’s a provision in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that is just now beginning to garner awareness among state governments and investors.

The Internal Revenue Service warned taxpayers Tuesday to beware of a quickly proliferating scam involving erroneous tax refunds being deposited in their bank accounts, after a data breach on their tax preparers' computers gives them access to sensitive client information.

The Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department announced changes Tuesday in the procedures for changing the accounting period of foreign corporations owned by U.S. shareholders subject to the transition tax under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

The Trump administration’s fiscal year 2019 budget proposal includes increasing oversight of paid tax preparers along with more authority for the Internal Revenue Service.