People on the move: Freed Maxick appoints first COO

BKD promotes 88 professionals; Drucker & Scaccetti hires talent development director and promotes three; and more personnel news.


Product news: Accelerator Websites for Accountants now offers websites in Spanish

Plus new products from Chargify, Avii, and a new chief product officer at MineralTree.


Tax Fraud Blotter: Tooth and justice

Guns galore; game of Chicken; an ID you can’t refuse; and other highlights of recent tax cases.


IRS small biz unit pivots to cryptocurrency enforcement

Newly appointed officials in the SB/SE Division plan to make changes in the IRS’s strategy for dealing with collections and enforcement.


IRS overlooked billions in unpaid employment taxes

Resource limitations and a drop in staff at the service allowed businesses to get away with billions of dollars in unpaid taxes.


Dean Dorton launches Women's Initiative Committee

The Lexington, Kentucky firm seeks to “promote a firm culture that provides women with support, mentorship and training in order to fully develop their potential as leaders.”


Protecting your firm: Addressing restrictive covenants in a partnership agreement

Restrictive covenants are the prenuptial agreements of the accounting world.


How to win your fantasy football league in 2019? Use valuation methodologies

Are you ready for some valuation? Ahem…football?!?!


FASB’s CECL extension: What should you do now?

To ensure entities have reliable and proper historical data accumulated when they implement CECL, they should start start cleaning up their data.


Study questions value of audit partner disclosure

A rule requiring audit firms to disclose the names of engagement partners who participated in an audit may not be having much of an impact on audit quality.