Preparers list their biggest do-overs from last season

Better communication with clients, more efficient workflow, and cloning themselves top the list of things tax pros want for next year.


SOX compliance still costs companies heavily

Fifteen years after passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, companies are still finding the costs of compliance heavy in terms of both dollars and man hours, according to a new report.


Grant Thornton expands in the West Indies by merging with former BDO firm

A Grant Thornton firm in the West Indies has merged in a former BDO firm to expand its presence in the Caribbean.


AuditFile adds report building plug-in for Excel

Accountants can build workpapers by linking from the Microsoft spreadsheet platform to data from the audit software’s trial balance section.


Tax reform predictions

Kate Barton, Americas vice chair of tax services for the Americas Tax practice at Ernst & Young, discusses the contrasting tax reform plans of House Republicans and President Trump, and what’s likely to be in the final bill.


Expensify and Bill.com revamp their integration

The expense and payments solutions providers have improved their solutions’ syncing capabilities with Intacct.


Art of Accounting: Your future in the accounting profession, a further comment

This is my comment about a recent column by Professor J. Edward Ketz that was posted on Accounting Today reproducing a speech he gave to accounting graduates. There was not enough space to post my entire comment.


Trump's offshore tax plan may mean extra perk for Apple, Pfizer

Multinationals are in line for a windfall from President Donald Trump’s call to cut the tax rate on U.S. companies’ stockpiled overseas earnings, but a select few would do better than others.


2017 summer reading for accountants

Here are 11 short(ish) reads for practitioners to take on a vacation – and come back charged up with new ideas.


Security tops firms’ tech challenges

The 4th Annual Accounting Firm Operations and Technology Survey also shows budgets flattening.