Data and information management

Reopening the IRS; wording a referendum; the season that won’t end; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

Outsourced accounting is among the options business leaders should carefully consider in these unprecedented times.

The Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission has released a new paper offering its views on how blockchain technology can be used with an organization’s internal controls over financial reporting.

Jirav, which creates all-in-one budgeting, forecasting, reporting and dashboarding software, has received $8 million in Series A funding to boost growth.

The COVID-19 pandemic has infected the service’s annual list of top tax scams.

This Practice Aid provides auditors with information to consider when accepting or continuing audit engagements that involve digital assets.

150,000 reasons to protect yourself against ransomware, and nine other developments in technology from this past month and how they’ll impact your clients and your firm.

The committee’s suggestions for the IRS include collaborating with the FTC.

Advisable taps advisory teams from around the world who share their insights and experience.

The software detects errors and anomalies in complex business data within accounting software, aimed at reducing the frequency and the cost of fixing them for accountants and bookkeepers.

The Internal Revenue Service is warning taxpayers and tax professionals once again to beware of tax fraud and other related financial scams related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The June QuickBooks update has brought bolstered reporting capabilities for QuickBooks Online and QBO Accountant, and a new tier for QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise that offers assisted payroll and industry-specific editions.

Excel gets co-opted in a phishing attack, Right Networks grabs Rootworks, and eight other recent developments in technology and how they’ll impact your clients and your firm.

As hackers and fraudsters take advantage of the chaos of the pandemic, cyberattacks are skyrocketing, according to SC&H Group director Jeff Bathurst -- making cybersecurity all the more important for accounting firms.

The organization warned victims about the potential for phishing attacks.

The National Association of State Boards of Accountancy has proposed a set of revisions to the Uniform Accountancy Act Model Rules for CPAs.

The platform is built to unify processes, tech platform and application support in one SaaS service.

As companies are evaluating continued operations, balancing profits with acceptable levels of loss, functioning with massively more remote work and trying to make up for economic disruptions, the first thought tends to be “How can we cut costs?”

Ten pandemic-related technology developments from the past month, and how they’ll impact your clients and your firm.