Re-targeting PPP; how to charge more; this season’s challenges; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

The Association of International CPAs has shared a number of tips for firms to better support and advance female professionals.

Whenever anyone asks Danica Dilligard how long she has been with Ernst & Young, she is always tempted to answer, “Since I was 14.”

CalCPA adds new membership category; Maxwell Locke & Ritter celebrates 30 years; and more CPA news.

The unemployment rate slipped to 6.2 percent , the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday, although there was a drop in positions in accounting and bookkeeping services.

This is a time of for accounting firms to think about their purpose -- what footprint, what impact, what difference they are making, and what legacy they are leaving.

Despite the gains, employment has effectively gone 'nowhere' since October, according to one expert.

The corporate finance and accounting area underperforms compared to other job functions when it comes to diversity, equity and inclusion.

As more firms recruit remotely and beyond their geographic borders, some new hires may never need to come into the office again.

FICPA's Task Force on Diversity and Inclusion, launched last September, announced a number of initiatives this year to advance equitable treatment in its member firms.

A Biden proposal to change the tax deduction for contributions to a tax credit could have serious implications.

Certified management accountants weren’t as hurt salary-wise by the economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic as non-CMAs, according to a new survey.

Hourly earnings and weekly hours worked at small businesses improved last month, according to payroll giant Paychex, while hiring dipped slightly during the pandemic.

Accounting firms must focus on building and nurturing relationships more than ever before.

Senate Democrats are jettisoning a proposal to penalize corporations that don’t raise the minimum wage for their lowest-paid workers in an effort to keep President Biden’s broader stimulus plan on track.

A fresh initiative in the U.S. Senate to put a tax penalty on big companies as a way of forcing higher minimum wages prompted a skeptical reaction among economists including a top adviser to former President Barack Obama.

Two Senate committee chiefs are looking at ways to raise taxes on companies paying workers less than $15 an hour, as part of a new strategy to include President Joe Biden’s push to boost the minimum wage to that level in his COVID-19 aid bill.

Lumsden & McCormick promotes four; Oklahoma Society of CPAs announces 2021 Trailblazer and Path Finder award winners; and more CPA news.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is weighing adding a provision to the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief plan that would put a penalty tax on big companies that don’t pay workers at least $15 an hour, a Democratic aide said on condition of anonymity.

Even after the coronavirus, the accounting profession will need to keep changing and adapting at a rapid pace.