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The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board voted Thursday to adopt two attestation standards pertaining to audits of brokers and dealers, along with an auditing standard for broker-dealer audits.

Ruth Papazian has been named chief marketing officer and head of recruiting at H.D. Vest, and tapped Adi Garg as chief information officer.

Here are 10 great mobile tools for accountants

The second edition of our annual report highlights 10 outstanding accounting firm leaders.

Legislation approved by the Senate earlier this year to require online businesses to collect sales taxes from out-of-state customers could have a unfair impact on businesses owned by minorities, women, veterans and other groups, according to a new study.

Yosemite is the perfect place to fully explore work-life integration and all its benefits. With today’s Saas and cloud technologies, Yosemite can easily become your new office.

Australia-based job management software maker simPRO Software has purchased a 30 percent stake in Gem Accounts publisher Gem Software Solutions, with plans to aid the product’s global rollout including its recent foray into the U.S. market.

Social media strategist Adrian Dayton and BeachFleischman PC chief marketing officer Eric Majchrzak discuss how accounting firms and other professional services firms can use LinkedIn, Google+ and other social networks to market their offerings to potential clients, and use search engine optimization to showcase their content, in an interview with Accounting Today senior editor Danielle Lee.

Paychex Inc. has a new SaaS platform to provide human resource administrators with all Paychex services accessible in one place.

The phrase “You don’t know what you don’t know” very accurately describes the business of accounting software for the practitioner and the provider or vendor. The reality is, most of us neither have the time nor the inclination to figure out just what it is we don’t know.