AccountantsWorld offers webinars with AT’s Most Influential People

AccountantsWorld has expanded its Expert Webinar Series this year, featuring 16 industry leaders, including a dozen of the Top 100 Most Influential People named by Accounting Today.


Lawmakers demand explanation for IRS’s Tax Day computer crash

A group of lawmakers on the House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee are asking the Internal Revenue Service’s acting commissioner, David Kautter, to explain why the IRS’s systems crash occurred on Tax Day, April 17.


Vertex creates integration for SAP Ariba

The tax software will work in conjunction with the suite of procurement and supply chain management solutions.


Millionaire pass-through breaks are slammed by Senate Democrat

A Senate hearing Tuesday indicated the politics of the tax overhaul haven’t changed since it passed in December, with Republicans singing its praises as an economist booster and Democrats torching it as a broken promise that mostly benefits the wealthiest.


Under new tax law the question is, to be or not to be a REIT?

The sturdy, reliable real estate investment trust is facing an existential choice.


CAQ and AAA support 3 academic auditing projects

The Center for Audit Quality and the Auditing Section of the American Accounting Association have picked three more entries as part of their Access to Audit Personnel Program.


Majority of young professionals lack career paths, ACCA study finds

Data from an Association of Chartered Certified Accountants report found that 92 percent of respondents wanted to learn new skills on the job.


Surviving a server crash: ‘Lose your data, lose your firm’

How a lone accountant saved Geris Zebarth from a technology disaster.


The IRS is taking off its velvet gloves for offshore holdings

Does the closing of the Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program mean it’s time for the iron fist?


Is your elevator pitch toxic?

Do you see the gleam of understanding and interest in the eyes of your listeners when you tell them about your services? Or do they just stand there, numb and uncomprehending, wishing they were somewhere else?