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How do you audit crypto? It starts with understanding how to report on it.  

ThomsonReuters

Blog home With the introduction of Accounting Standards Update 2023-08, Subtopic 350-60, the landscape for accounting, audit, and assurance of cryptocurrency is evolving. This update provides guidance for financial statement reporting, effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024, requiring crypto assets to be measured at fair value, with changes recognized in net income each reporting period.

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BOI Reporting Requirements Paused Again as of 12/27/2024

RogerRossmeisl

In a surprising turn of events, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has reinstated a nationwide injunction that halts the enforcement of beneficial ownership information (BOI) reporting requirements. This decision, made on Thursday, reverses an earlier order from the same court issued just days prior. The court’s latest action aims “to preserve the constitutional status quo while the merits panel considers the parties’ weighty substantive arguments,” according to the court

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Year-End Financial Checklist for Construction Business Owners

Randal DeHart

As the year draws to a close, construction business owners find themselves in a critical period of reflection and preparation. The year's end is a time to celebrate past successes and an opportunity to assess financial health and strategize for the coming year. A thorough year-end financial checklist can help ensure your business is on solid footing as you move forward.

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Leveraging new IRS digital asset reporting regulations: Opportunities for personalized advisory services

ThomsonReuters

Blog home With digital assets gaining ground in financial markets, the IRS has implemented new regulations to ensure proper reporting of these transactions. This marks a pivotal shift for tax and accounting professionals, fundamentally altering how digital asset transactions, including cryptocurrency , are tracked and reported for tax purposes. For accountants, the new digital asset reporting regulations will likely generate a surge in client inquiries, making it critical for firms to be fully

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Why Tech-Forward Tax and Accounting Firms Have the Inside Track to the Future

Speaker: Joe Wroblewski, Sales Engineer Manager

Automating time-consuming manual tasks can save your firm hundreds of hours–and thousands of dollars. But it can also have longer-lasting benefits, like helping you attract and retain the next generation of CPAs, and we don’t need to tell you how important that is amid the current generational staffing crisis in the tax and accounting profession. You'll want to save your seat for this new webinar with industry expert Joe Wroblewski, where we'll explore how to: Maximize ROI with Cost-Effective Te

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The Year-End Financial Checklist For Construction Business Owners

Randal DeHart

As the year draws to a close, construction business owners find themselves in a critical period of reflection and preparation. The year's end is a time to celebrate past successes and an opportunity to assess financial health and strategize for the coming year. A thorough year-end financial checklist can help ensure your business is on solid footing as you move forward.

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Beneficial Ownership Information Reporting Enforcement on Hold Yet Again After Appeals Court Reinstates Injunction

CPA Practice

The roller coaster continues, as the 5th U.S. Circuit Court's decision on Dec. 26 suspends the deadline once again for most reporting companies to file BOI reports with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.

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Appeals court reinstates injunction on beneficial ownership reporting

Accounting Today

A federal appeals court has reversed itself, reinstating an injunction on beneficial ownership information reporting by businesses only days after lifting it.

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The Top Tax & Accounting News Stories of 2024

CPA Practice

2024 saw major news events and ongoing trends that are significantly shaping the profession, including how professionals practice, how firms operate, and your business and individual clients.

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If accounting is transforming, CPE should too

Accounting Today

Is most CPE content not good because nobody cares enough to make investing in it worthwhile, or does nobody care about CPE?

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How to Fill Out Form W-4: Helping Your Employees

Patriot Software

When you hire a new employee, you must collect a completed Form W-4, Employees Withholding Certificate. This is how you determine federal income tax withholding. At some point in the onboarding process, an employee may ask you how to fill out Form W-4. Do you know the answer?

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Live Demo - Supercharge your Month End Close

Automation generally supercharges any process and brings its value to the forefront. See how infusing automation such as ART (our month-end close solution), into your close can get you to the next level of closing. We will share a live demo of SkyStem's solution, ART and share the key elements of month-end close automation. Through ART, we'll take a look at: What month-end close automation entails Which process steps can and should be automated Benefits of achieving process automation, and Why i

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The 'magic' ends for big-time tax fraudster

Accounting Today

The tax preparer known as 'the Magician' will pay $145 million in restitution.

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Marketing Automation Strategies to Maximize Lead Conversion

CPA Practice

Marketing automation offers you a dynamic approach to streamline lead nurturing, making the client acquisition process more efficient and personalized.

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5 accounting firm M&A predictions for 2025

Accounting Today

In 2024, private equity money flooded the accounting M&A market, but next year will bring other changes.

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8 Ways Outsourcing Tax Preparation Can Help CPA Firms Meet Deadlines

Analytix Finance & Accounting

Tax season. Just hearing the word is enough to send a shiver down a CPA’s spine. The endless paperwork, the complex regulations, and the looming tight deadlinesits a challenging time for every accounting firm. But what if there was a smarter, more efficient way to handle the rush? Turns out, there is! By outsourcing your tax preparation. Outsourcing can help your CPA firm not just meet deadlines; it can completely transform how you approach tax season.

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Mid-Year Review: How to Ignite Employee Potential Through Meaningful Feedback

Mid-year performance reviews aren’t just boxes for HR to check. Paycor’s toolkit empowers leaders to: Identify high-potential team members. Boost engagement with meaningful feedback. Support struggling employees. Nurture top talent to drive results. Learn how to ignite employee potential through meaningful feedback. When you nurture top talent, everybody wins.

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AI Thought Leaders: 2025 predictions and AI regulation

Accounting Today

In this second of three parts of our annual AI Thought Leaders Survey, our pool of experts offer their take on AI regulation, and their predictions for 2025.

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An Accountant’s Weekend Reading | 12.27.24

Going Concern

Friday Footnotes will return on January 3, 2025. That’s next Friday, just by the way. Instead of a wrap up of the week’s accounting news (there is none), here are a few items for your consideration. Comments are open if you’d like to share your opinion on anything here, or any other relevant happenings in and around the accounting profession.

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FASB releases 2025 taxonomies

Accounting Today

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has posted the 2025 GAAP Financial Reporting Taxonomy, SEC Reporting Taxonomy and GAAP Employee Benefit Plan Taxonomy.

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Breaking News: Another Flip Flop – Beneficial Ownership Reporting Blocked Again

Withum

Not more than four days (December 23, 2024) from when the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in Texas Top Cop Shop v. Garland lifted the district courts December 3 rd preliminary nationwide injunction on beneficial ownership reporting (BOI) , a Fifth Circuit panel has now reinstated a nationwide injunction blocking enforcement of BOI reporting. What It Means The nationwide scope of the injunction means that the BOI reporting is temporarily blocked for all of the approximately 32.6 million existing r

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Your Accounting Expertise Will Only Get You So Far: What Really Matters

Speaker: Victor C. Barnes, CPA, MBA

In the climb from contributor to leader, the rules quietly change. If you’re aiming for the summit, the air gets thinner—and what got you here won’t be enough to get you to the top (a concept first popularized by Marshall Goldsmith in his book What Got You Here Won’t Get You There ). What made you successful early in your finance career—technical accuracy, sharp analysis, flawless execution—won’t be what carries you to the next level.

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Know Your Small Business Tax Deadlines In 2025

Ronika Khanna CPA,CA

As we approach the new year, it is time to start thinking about a subject near and dear to everyones heart i.e. taxes (insert appropriate emoji). Below are the deadlines that all small businesses/sole proprietors need to know for 2025. Coming Soon: Download your free Canada unincorporated business tax deadline calendar for 2025 (both Federal and Quebec).