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The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling presents a variety of opportunities for you to assist gay clients and change previous tax filing processes.

The International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board has released an exposure draft proposing changes to how auditors should handle engagements reporting on summary financial statements.

In an age of stepped-up regulation and enforcement, accountants and their clients need to know how to cope with a variety of different agencies, including the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.

Sage’s 2015 Summit crystallized a new mission for the company, sparked with the hiring of Stephen Kelly as the accounting and payroll software provider’s CEO last November and continued with the rollout of a flurry of new cloud-based solutions in the spring.

I believe that CPA firms do best when they hire people out of school and train them. However, this article is not about training or who to hire, but how to retain who you have.

Lyle Benson of L.K. Benson & Co., who chairs the AICPA's PFP Section, discusses the tools that CPA financial planners can use to help clients map out their financial futures, in an interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Dan Hood.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has issued a three-part accounting standards update for employee benefit plans accounting as part of its efforts to simplify the accounting rules.

Business executives are giving mixed predictions on when and if tax reform will finally happen in Washington, in a new survey.

Cristina Garza is a real-life accounting super hero.

On Friday, Barry Melancon, president and CEO of the AICPA, applauded Congress for changing the due dates of certain tax returns in order to make the information flow between corporations, partnerships and individuals more logical, and which will reduce the need for extending and amending corporate and individual tax returns.