So you’re ready to be an accountant?

10 things recent accounting grads should know.


AICPA names 2018 Accounting Scholars Leadership Workshop graduates

Over 100 minority college students graduated from this year’s program, aimed at diversifying the profession and helping candidates succeed at obtaining the CPA license.


Art of Accounting: Grow up

Many colleagues and clients get tangled in the daily merry-go-round that consumes much of their time while pushing aside creative, innovative and big picture thinking about their business, how they got there and where they are going.


The artful dodge on the ACA tax penalty that saved Kavanaugh from Supreme Court doom

In 2011, Judge Brett Kavanaugh was selected at random to rule on whether President Barack Obama’s signature legislative achievement, the Affordable Care Act, was constitutional.


KPMG teams with SAS on CECL guidance

KPMG is partnering with analytics provider SAS on helping banks make the transition to the current expected credit loss, or CECL, accounting standard that begins to take effect in January 2020.


IRS plans regulations on non-grantor trusts and new tax law

The upcoming rules may affect one tactic that some wealthy taxpayers have been using to get around the cap on deducting local property taxes.


SAP and Thomson Reuters release cross-border transaction management product

SAP Market Rates Management, Thomson Reuters data option, converts foreign transactions into a single currency.


Firms on the move: UHY Michigan celebrates 50 years by donating $50K

FICPA announces this year’s class of Emerging Leaders; Mauldin & Jenkins opens Savannah office; and more news from CPA offices across the country.


People on the move: MCM appoints new managing partner

Withum anoints lead for new digital currency and blockchain practice; Grant Thornton names chief people and culture officer; and other recent hires, promotions and personnel news from firms across the country.


Withum is on the forefront of cryptocurrency services

The firm has established a digital currency and blockchain services group, and is bullish on the future of ICOs.