7 steps to successful marketing automation for accounting firms

Like the cloud in which many of its functions reside, marketing automation is a relatively fuzzy concept that can be confusing.


Down payments on the future of accounting

No matter how big or small their practice is, accountants need to invest in themselves.


Avalara plans new cross-border tax initiatives

The tax software developer is planning to take on some new projects in the U.S. and abroad.


Oregon CPA sentenced to prison for defrauding Olympic snowboarder

Nathan Wheeler, a 43-year-old CPA in Portland, Oregon, who also owns a marijuana business, was sentenced to 51 months in federal prison for wire fraud and tax evasion after embezzling nearly $1 million from an Olympic snowboarding medalist.


Diverse companies are more profitable, report finds

Crowe’s second annual ‘The Art of Smart’ report also found that female leadership is highest in European corporate boards.


Big Four firms grab greater share of U.K. audit market

Despite a series of accounting scandals, the major firms are increasing their dominance.


Inside the cannabis industry

Zach Gordon, a pioneer in serving the marijuana business and senior manager of the cannabis practice at Janover LLC, shares the issues facing this new niche, and how accountants can and should work with it.


Art of Accounting: Diversity insensitivity

We need to be aware of things that we do that make others uncomfortable, especially women and members of minority groups.


IRS shifts authority over tax appeal denials to chief counsel’s office

Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Charles Rettig issued an order Friday transferring authority over denials of requests for tax appeals to the IRS’s Office of Chief Counsel, despite recent legislation creating an independent Office of Appeals at the IRS.


PCAOB hires new CFO amid internal turmoil

The board has brought in Holly Greaves, a former CFO at the EPA, as its new CFO, but not publicly announced the move.