Top-spending GOP group says little of Trump tax law in campaign

The issue hasn’t been the political boon party leaders hoped it would be.


AICPA names 2018 'Leadership Academy' graduates

Forty-one up-and-coming professionals graduated from the American Institute of CPAs’ 10th annual training and education program in Durham, N.C.


Trump tax law fails to kill off corporate America’s prized dodge

U.S. corporations have largely abandoned the contentious deals that allowed them to shift their addresses abroad for a lower tax rate. Yet a key part of the transactions is continuing quietly even after President Donald Trump’s tax overhaul.


Invest in people as people

Beyond technical training, top firms help staff improve themselves.


Technology and future generations of accountants

The IMA’s Jeff Thomson discusses generational issues in accounting and how they’re learning to use advanced technologies


Patisserie accounting woes bring chairman’s warning to life

Luke Johnson should have read his own aide-memoire. A month after the Patisserie Holdings Plc chairman published an advice column on spotting fraud, his finance chief has been arrested in an accounting scandal that threatened to shut the cake baker’s 200-plus stores.


Top 3% of U.S. taxpayers paid majority of income taxes in 2016

Individual income taxes are the federal government’s single biggest revenue source. In fiscal year 2018, which ended Sept. 30, the individual income tax is expected to bring in roughly $1.7 trillion, or about half of all federal revenues, according to the Congressional Budget Office.


SEC suspends former BDO auditors for ‘predating’ work papers

The auditors had fallen behind, according to the commission, and falsified their documentation to make a deadline.


Create 'One Firm'

Make sure staff know there’s life outside their department.


Groups plan global sustainability push at World Congress of Accountants

The Prince of Wales’ Accounting for Sustainability project and the International Integrated Reporting Council intend to promote sustainability reporting and integrated reporting at the World Congress of Accountants that’s set to take place in Sydney, Australia in early November.