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Special Report: 2025 Readers’ Choice Awards

CPA Practice

From tax prep to asset management, invoicing and portals, and auditing to remote CFO functions, the services the accounting and tax pros provide are dependent on the technologies they use. The awards highlight the most useful technology for firms and clients.

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Elliott Davis takes PE investment

Accounting Today

Elliott Davis is based in Greenville, South Carolina, with over 800 employees, 60 partners and eight offices. He has long been a trusted advisor to our clients and a respected leader within our firm. John lives our values, embraces our mission, and is fully prepared to guide Elliott Davis into its next chapter."

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SaaS taxability: A comprehensive guide

TaxConnex

Failure to do could result in an audit by a state and a company being assessed the tax it should have charged with no statute of limitations. South Carolina doesnt tax downloaded software but does tax SaaS, exactly the opposite of many states.

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On the move: KPMG elects next Americas chair

Accounting Today

SOUTH CAROLINA Elliott Davis, Greenville, announced the selection of John Otten as its next CEO, effective July 1, and succeeding Rick Davis, who held the role for over 18 years and will stay at the firm in an advisory role.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Firm Tells City Client to F Off; One Canadian Big 4 Firm Sucks, Dunno Who | 4.7.25

Going Concern

billion accounting error in South Carolina’s finances. An AlixPartners report found the state auditor, treasurer, comptroller general and outside auditing firm CliftonLaresenAllen [sic] all were aware of a $1.8 The forensic audit eventually found that almost $1.6 The State continues to cover that $1.8

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Friday Footnotes: Is AI Actually Improving Audits?; Activists Try to Save Direct File | 7.18.25

Going Concern

Audit Automated auditors: could AI undermine financial reporting? Paradoxically, AI can turn the audit into a black box,” he adds. Then, just 38 per cent of BDO’s audits were ranked as satisfactory. Here in Massachusetts, the collapse last year of Steward Health Care has been widely blamed on its ties to PE.

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Friday Footnotes: IRS Commish Quits Before Trump Takes Office; International Firm Culture Rules; The PCAOB’s Latest L | 1.17.25

Going Concern

Lyon, who runs the auditing firms national economics and statistics tax policy services economics group, previously served as deputy assistant secretary for tax analysis during the George W. billion [missing from South Carolina state funds] “did not represent real cash.” Cost of investigating mystery $1.8B