Practice management

By helping business owners shore up their metrics, you can help them boost their enterprise value and add more value to your relationship.

Blindly accepting AI outputs, setting poor AI controls, failing to update processes when software changes: many AI problems unfortunately begin with the human, but it is also humans that can prevent them.

Anthony Pugliese of the IIA discusses the new and perennial risks and challenges facing companies, and the new resources the IIA is rolling out to help.

CEO Jeff Call is ramping up the use of artificial intelligence at the Top 100 Firm, and helping clients adjust to changes from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

Connecticut Society of CPAs to bestow annual Women's Awards; Forvis Mazars appoints leader of the energy and natural resources practice; and more news from across the profession.

Five hidden traits may be holding you back.

Carr, Riggs & Ingram added DK Partners; LGA merged in Ziner & Murphy; Adams Brown acquired Stafford & Westervelt; and Stephano Slack merged in Boyer & Boyer and Kimmel, Lorah & Associates.

Franklin Alliance, a venture capital-backed company that helps small and midsized firms scale, acquired Cincinnati-based Howard, Nunn & Bloom. Randy Crabtree and Jon Segal also joined its advisory board.

Small accounting firms can scale intentionally, sustainably and without compromising what makes them special.

Eide Bailly adds Wall, Einhorn & Chernitzer; Brown Edwards acquires Sheldon & Co.; and LGA merges with Cohen Cohen & Co.

The firm, which now has more than 500 partners, said its deals practice shrank 4% and its audit unit was down 3.7%, while its tax business grew 3.4%.

Hill, Barth & King has expanded to Maryland by acquiring McLean, Koehler, Sparks & Hammond.

The USO's Accountants Salute the Troops Council aims to bring the accounting firms together to raise $250,000 in funding by July 4, 2026.

Plus, enhancements for TaxWiseOnline; EY announces EY.ai Tax Labs service; Vertex launches Configuration Agent for MS Dynamics 365; and other accounting tech news and updates.

The American Institute of CPAs has sent a letter to the Multistate Tax Commission recommending changes in a proposed approach to sourcing of partnership income.

A recently released book explains a framework for improving a company's profitability.

Grant Thornton Advisors has expanded its rapidly growing multinational platform by merging in Kevane Grant Thornton in Puerto Rico.

Job satisfaction for female CPAs in tax, audit and CAS has improved by more than twice as much for female CPAs than it has for male CPAs in those areas.

The Regional Leader is expanding its presence in Western Michigan, effective Jan. 1, 2026.

Accounting firms can determine individual CPAs' practice privileges in different states under new mobility and substantial equivalency rules.