People on the move: New MP takes helm at Mauldin & Jenkins

Elliott Davis adds eight shareholders in four offices; OUM & Co. promotes 12; and other recent hires, promotions and personnel news from firms across the country.


Basic principles to improve profitability at your firm

Senior partners at many small and midsized CPA firms are unable to make significant strides in their bottom-line distributions to their partners.


Sanders introduces BEZOS Act to tax large employers who pay low wages

Senator Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., teamed up Wednesday to introduce legislation to tax big companies whose wages are so low that their employees are forced to rely on public assistance programs.


Ryan says tax cut 2.0 vote still planned, despite SALT hangups

House GOP leaders are forging ahead with a vote on a second phase of tax cuts this month, despite dissension from Republicans in high-tax states who say the measure would hurt their voters.


IRS to work more closely with states on tax compliance

The Internal Revenue Service is hoping to expand the number of states who share data with the IRS as part of a joint federal and state program that’s trying to crack down on tax evasion.


Greatland acquires Aabet Business Systems

This is the third buy for the tax services company in five years.


Dean Dorton Technology launches full service cybersecurity practice

Gui Cozzi, formerly of Crowe LLP, will lead the new service line.


Plucking the low-hanging fruit

Periodically, every farmer will go around and pluck the low-hanging fruit so that it doesn’t spoil. Well, the same principle applies to effective professional service marketers.


The Future of the Audit: Dialogue with academics and students is critical

Technology is critical to the changes in this core service — but so are people.


Ex-CPA gets 18 months for fraud, tax evasion

The Texas accountant transferred funds from his employer to himself.