The Institute of Management Accountants is hoping to prepare more accounting students for careers in industry.

Jobs at small businesses increased last month, with Washington State leading the way along with the Mountain region of the country, according to payroll provider Paychex and the research firm IHS.

Private sector employers added 220,000 jobs in April, in a sign of a more robust economy taking shape, according to the latest employment report from payroll giant ADP.

I interviewed professionals in charge of human resources at reputable accounting firms to find out how they successfully manage and motivate accounting professionals. I’m confident that if you read on, you’ll learn a thing or two.

Deloitte vice chairman and chief inclusion officer Deb DeHaas discusses the firm's efforts to expand its hiring of military veterans, in an interview with AccountingToday.com editor-in-chief Michael Cohn.

Early on in my career, I was assigned to work with a manager on a half dozen monthly clients.

As a tax preparation business owner for more than 30 years, Chuck McCabe considers his success due in part to being proactive in structuring his business policies and procedures.

Only a little over half of small businesses understand and are prepared for the changes required by the Affordable Care Act, according to a new survey.

Accounting firms love to talk about work-life balance. Leaders of accounting firms are consistently pitching their firm as the leader in work-life balance.

Deloitte vice chairman and chief inclusion officer Deb DeHaas discusses the firm's efforts at recruiting a more diverse workforce, in an interview with AccountingToday.com editor-in-chief Michael Cohn.

It takes about four weeks, on average, for CFOs to fill an open staff-level positions in accounting and finance, according to a new survey.

Transition Advisors president Joel Sinkin talks about what firms should do after a merger to retain their clients and staff members, in an interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Daniel Hood.

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Private sector employment increased by 191,000 jobs in March, according to payroll giant ADP, as companies ramped up their hiring as the weather improved.

Payroll service provider Paychex has teamed up with the research firm IHS to produce a new Small Business Jobs Index, which shows the Mountain region of the country leading the way in employment gains among small businesses.

Firms are taking new approaches to new partners

When President Obama announced the myRA program during his State of the Union Address this year, it likely raised several questions among those in the accounting community: What is this new program? How will it work? How does it compare to the retirement benefits businesses already provide to their employees? What do I need to share with my clients about this?

The U.S. Supreme Court decided in favor of the Obama administration in a dispute over taxes on severance compensation, overturning a lower court decision that could have forced the IRS to refund more than $1 billion.

As the NBA season enters its critical stretch of the remainder of the regular season and tax season winds down, the natural question to ask is this: would LeBron James be as great a CPA as he is a basketball player?

The representation of women within the leadership of public accounting firms is too low, according to Jeanette Franzel, a member of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.