Career path longer for women in accounting

It takes an average of seven years longer for women in accounting and finance to reach executive level than their male counterparts, according to a new report.


In the blogs: Reach and grasp

Planning for Tax Day 2019; “Miracle on Ice;” filing protection for exempt organizations; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.


Right Networks buys Transaction Pro

The acquisition is the second for the cloud hosting company in 12 months.


CAQ offers information on critical audit matters

The Center for Audit Quality has published a guide to the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board’s new audit reporting model and the critical audit matters that auditors will be required to start including in their audit reports next year.


IRS counsel nominee briefly advised Trump Organization on taxes

President Donald Trump’s nominee for chief counsel of the Internal Revenue Service briefly advised the future president’s real estate company on a tax question several years ago.


Fighting tax dodgers can kill economic growth

It’s easy to be outraged about multinational corporations’ shifting of profits to tax havens, but much harder to figure out how to stop them from doing it without hurting the economy. Evidence exists that curbing tax avoidance opportunities makes these firms move actual jobs, not just accounting profits, overseas.


Getting in sync with clients' buying cycles

Reverse-engineering your sales approach by looking at things from the eyes of the prospect can boost your effectiveness.


Liberty Tax soars after founder involved in sex scandal agrees to leave firm

Liberty Tax Inc. shares climbed as much as 28 percent, the most in more than six years, after founder John Hewitt agreed to sever ties with the company and sell all of his shares following a sex scandal that had already cost him his job as chief executive officer.


Automakers saved on tax cuts. Here’s how much could be wiped out by tariffs

Corporate America, and even Republican leaders, have warned President Donald Trump that his trade war could end up erasing some of the savings reaped from the sharp cut in the corporate tax rate.


Ernst & Young acquires cryptocurrency tech

Ernst & Young has acquired cryptocurrency technology and patents from Elevated Consciousness, a San Francisco-based startup that focuses on digital currency.