IRS to open filing season Monday with some extra warnings

The Internal Revenue Service is getting ready to open the tax filing season on Monday, Jan. 29, as it gears up to handle the new tax law.


Becoming a multiplying force

Adding the right combination of new capabilities will make you more valuable to clients and more scalable as a business. Follow this advice in today’s new advisory landscape.


FASB task force tackles cloud computing costs

The Financial Accounting Standards Board’s Emerging Issues Task Force plans to propose new rules for how to deal with cloud computing service costs.


Tax Fraud Blotter: Healing and stealing

Psychics gone bad; wrong numbers; cattle and veils; and other highlights of recent tax cases.


Apple’s $38B tax bill? The company has eight years to pay

The eye-popping $38 billion tax bill that Apple Inc. said it plans to pay on its mammoth pile of accumulated foreign earnings will probably hit federal coffers in an eight-year trickle, not a one-time torrent.


PwC appeals two-year ban on audits in India

PricewaterhouseCoopers’ firm in India is appealing a two-year ban on auditing public companies by the Securities Exchange Board of India.


FASB tweaks leasing standard for land easements

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has issued an accounting standards update to clarify how to apply the new lease accounting standard to land easements, simplifying adoption of the standard for some easements.


Trump tax cuts will be smaller than expected for many companies

Opponents of the new corporate tax cuts were right. Many companies didn’t pay the full rate before the law passed—so they won’t see splashy reductions in 2018, according to their own estimates.


Firms on the move: Deloitte announces FanTAXtic winners

Baker Tilly International announces $3.4 billion in global revenues; Rea & Associates donates food to Help Can Hunger drive; and more news from CPA offices across the country.


People on the move: Eide Bailly names first CIO

Dixon Hughes Goodman appoints director of change management; CohnReznick grows transactional advisory team; and other recent hires, promotions and personnel news from firms across the country.