PwC and Accruent partner to address new lease accounting standard

The firm will leverage the software company’s asset management software to create a rounded compliance offering.


Four quadrants to master for 2018

Simple steps to spending all day with your favorite, most profitable clients—who happily refer you to their peers.


Firms on the move: Withum debuts annual ‘State of the Firm’ video

HMWC hosts donation drive; HeimLantz launches executive team leadership coaching; and more news from CPA offices across the country.


People on the move: Former FBI director heads Deloitte's cyber risk services

EY appoints global leader of fraud investigation and dispute services; Grant Thornton hires chief economist; and other recent hires, promotions and personnel news from firms across the country.


Taking clients to ballgames? Tax law change makes it costlier

Businesses—especially smaller firms—may scale back on treating clients to major league baseball games, golf outings and the like after Congress and President Donald Trump ended a tax break for such entertainment.


Trump’s SALT ‘war’ revisited: Most blue staters will get tax cut

In liberal bastions like metro New York and California, the Trump tax overhaul has been criticized as economic warfare. But as elements of the plan come into focus, tax experts are concluding that some of the most dire predictions for high-tax blue states—particularly surrounding the treatment of state and local taxes—may not pan out as feared.


New Products: Books for accountants in 2018

A selection of reading for the profession, from the purely practical to the inspirational.


Tax Fraud Blotter: Crime ribs

Gone Postal; five down in fraud; ‘saves me a lot of taxes’; and other highlights of recent tax cases.


Congress isn’t quite done with taxes yet

Even though Congress passed the biggest tax overhaul in more than 30 years only a few weeks ago, there’s likely to be more tax-related legislation coming out in the very near future.


New Jersey taxpayers who prepaid 2018 property taxes can’t deduct them on 2017 state returns

The New Jersey Society of CPAs is warning taxpayers in the Garden State that the New Jersey Division of Taxation isn’t letting them deduct the 2018 property taxes they prepaid last year on their 2017 state return after passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, though the move could still be helpful in terms of federal taxes.