Here’s how it pays off to take RMDs early in the year

Sometimes the strategy can eliminate a domino effect of other expensive tax problems down the road, Ed Slott writes.


Inspyrus updates accounts payable solution

New features include application performance management with infrastructure monitoring and synthetic transactions.


Tax break on repatriated foreign earnings may spur R&D

A new academic study suggests that the provisions in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act encouraging companies to repatriate their foreign earnings back to the U.S. at a reduced tax rate could lead to more spending on research and development.


SEC OKs 2018 reporting taxonomies

The Securities and Exchange has accepted the 2018 GAAP Financial Reporting Taxonomy and the 2018 SEC Reporting Taxonomy, the Financial Accounting Standards Board said Monday.


Art of Accounting: Training a new tax specialist

The following is some of the advice I give when I train or mentor a new tax specialist:


Job disruption is quickly coming to accounting, too

Fast-changing technologies are creating a labor conundrum for the profession.


A ‘dead’ home-equity tax deduction sees new life thanks to IRS

President Donald Trump’s new tax law set off a false alarm for homeowners planning to borrow against the equity in their houses.


Internal auditors need to tackle risks and innovation

Institute of Internal Auditors president and CEO Richard Chambers talks about how audit executives need to be more agile and overcome complacency at their organizations by using technology such as data analytics and artificial intelligence.


A silver lining for CFOs in the current storm of standards

A flood of new accounting regs may be an opportunity to strength a company’s finance architecture.


Intuit to host ProConnect Q&A session on FacebookLive

The session will address the implications of tax reform on tax and accounting firms, and top changes coming for tax years 2017 and 2018.