Professional development

Education services company Kaplan Inc. a subsidiary of publicly traded Graham Holdings, has agreed to acquire SmartPros, Ltd., a provider of accredited professional education and training for accountants and other finance professionals.

Registration is now open for the Accreditation Council for Accountancy and Taxation Fall 2015 exams for accountants, tax preparers and students seeking to earn the Accredited Business Accountant/Advisor (ABA), Accredited Tax Advisor (ATA) and Accredited Tax Preparer (ATP) credentials.

Thomson Reuters has released a new program to help tax professionals and accounting firms educate their clients, prospects and client service teams about the latest developments in the field.

Thomson Reuters has introduced a Tax Fundamentals Certificate Program for tax professionals and those who help them.

The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and the Institute of Management Accountants have debuted a new website and research report exploring the future of the accounting and finance profession.

Nobody knows bookkeeping anymore.

Each year when the calendar turns to June, I get mixed emotions. On one hand, I am thrilled that summer has arrived but on the other hand, I’m dreading my upcoming June 30 deadline to report 40 new hours of CPE to my state board.

Tim Gearty of Becker Professional Education describes some of the recent changes in accounting standards that will be confronting CPA candidates on their upcoming exams, in an interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Dan Hood.

Tim Gearty of Becker Professional Education discusses some recent changes in accounting standards that CPA Exam candidates should know about before sitting for the test, in an interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Dan Hood.

Tim Gearty of Becker Professional Education discusses how the CPA Exam is testing for recent accounting standards updates, in an interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Dan Hood.

Accountingfly, the online career community for accounting professionals, announced the acquisition of GoingConcern.com.

The causes behind Greece’s ever-worsening debt crisis have been attributed to different factors, including widespread tax evasion, harsh austerity measures, an underground economy, and predatory investment banks and hedge funds, but according to one expert, the main culprit is bad accounting.

The Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Ireland and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh have signed a memorandum of understanding to provide an online CPA Certificate in IPSAS Financial Reporting in Bangladesh.

Thomson Reuters has introduced the Corporate CPE Network to provide corporate professionals with information, recommendations and best practices to educate them on new tax law and accounting requirements.

Thomson Reuters has introduced the Checkpoint Learning Forensic Accounting Certificate Program for CPAs and other accounting and audit professionals to help them build competencies in forensic investigation, related process, and litigation support while earning continuing professional education credits.

The Anti-Fraud Collaboration, a joint effort of the Center for Audit Quality, Financial Executives International, the Institute of Internal Auditors and the National Association of Corporate Directors, has released the third in a series of case studies examining how to identify and stop accounting fraud in an organization.

Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting US has introduced a self-study e-learning program on the Internal Revenue Service’s tangible property repair regulations that comes with continuing professional education credits and a certificate of completion.

Roger Philipp, CEO of Roger CPA Review, describes how accounting students can decide whether accounting is the right career for them, in an interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Dan Hood.

Over the course of more than 40 years in practice and teaching both undergraduate and graduate accounting students, I have encountered some interesting, sometimes humorous definitions of some basic accounting terms.

Roger CPA Review CEO Roger Philipp discusses how to set up a study plan for taking the CPA Exam and prepare for the big day, in an interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Dan Hood.