Practice management

This webcast will examine how to know when you’ve outgrown your accounting software and what to look for when you are ready to move up to the next level.

The Democratic Party approved its platform at its national convention in Denver, including a number of planks related to taxes.

Bookkeeping Express, a franchisor focused on providing outsourced bookkeeping services to small businesses, plans to expand nationally with 400 new territories.

This webcast will examine how to know when you’ve outgrown your accounting software and what to look for when you are ready to move up to the next level.

A former Internal Revenue Service agent was sentenced to 30 months in prison for helping a heroin dealer to buy a $65,000 BMW 745i while concealing his ownership of the vehicle.

A self-proclaimed priest has been convicted of tax fraud after his accountant and girlfriend pleaded guilty.

The National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts said that its Certified Valuation Analyst and Accredited Valuation Analyst designations have received certification from the National Organization for Competency Assurance.

Short, effective, to-the-point, and beneficial is how I viewed a recent e-mail request to participate in a survey from PKF Texas. The e-mail is intended for clients and prospects.

Average U.S. taxpayers subsidize executive compensation by more than $20 billion per year, thanks to various tax and accounting loopholes, according to a new report.

Web electronics site Newegg has sent an e-mail to customers saying that it will not comply with a controversial New York State law requiring Internet retailers to collect sales tax for purchases by state residents.

A federal court has permanently barred a Tacoma, Wash., woman from selling a tax scam, according to the Justice Department.

The Internal Revenue Service is planning to increase its enforcement efforts by sending out warning letters to a larger group of taxpayers who may be underreporting their income.

The Internal Revenue Service has released its revised instructions for the redesigned Form 990 that tax-exempt organizations must submit.

The Internal Revenue Service released its summer 2008 Statistics of Income Bulletin, featuring tax year 2005 data on the growth of profits and tax liability at foreign-controlled domestic corporations.

A recent study on corporate tax payments has been making waves on the Internet and in Washington in the past week.

I write the "M&A" update box in Practical Accountant's Profession Watch section, and one of the details we give for firms recently merged or acquired is "Niches/Concentrations."

Stefano Vranca, a principal at Rothstein Kass’s Beverly Hills, Calif., office, sees lawsuits in the entertainment industry up close.As head of the firm’s litigation and forensics practice, he often handles royalty reviews and negotiations for various movie studios. Vranca has noticed an increasing reliance on “creative accounting” by businesses of all types as the economy goes sour and companies try to eke out revenues whatever way they can.

IRS REDUCES BIZ TAX EXTENSIONSWashington, D.C. — The Internal Revenue Service has moved up the extended due date for partnership, estate and trust tax returns from Oct. 15 to Sept. 15 to avoid overlapping with the extended deadline for individual taxes.

No one is accountable around here!” I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard that statement from partner groups and leadership teams — and we hear it from your young people too! Yes, your up-and-coming leaders want to be held accountable, and they also want the leaders in their organizations to be accountable. They see what is possible in an environment that embraces — even demands — accountability.That is why we have dedicated this article to exploring what it takes to build a foundation for accountability in your organization.

John Gutfreund, former CEO of investment bank Salomon Brothers, is facing a lien of over $430,000 from the Internal Revenue Service on his 16-room Fifth Avenue apartment.