Art of Accounting: 5 reasons for failing to grow and how to change them
Accounting Today
MARCH 10, 2025
Part of growing is for your staff to also grow. That growth comes when they are empowered to take charge, supervise and make decisions.
Accounting Today
MARCH 10, 2025
Part of growing is for your staff to also grow. That growth comes when they are empowered to take charge, supervise and make decisions.
Going Concern
MARCH 10, 2025
KPMG thinks it’ll save money, open up new opportunities, and be better equipped to make widespread technology investments by consolidating local firms in its international network. In May of 2024, KPMG announced that KPMGs UK and Switzerland would merge to form a $4.4 billion MechaKPMG. Said KPMG UK chief executive Jon Holt at the time, “This marks a historic moment for both firms.
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Xero
MARCH 10, 2025
Its been a massive start to 2025! In February , we shared enhancements weve made to invoicing. We also heard your feedback, and so now you can automatically prepare partnership annual accounts and tax returns using Xero data and seamlessly file them with HMRC (read more in the previous edition of Whats New). Check out more in our quarterly wrap video below.
VJM Global
MARCH 10, 2025
Held by Honble High Court of Kerala In the matter of Joint Commissioner (Intelligence and Enforcement) vs. M/s Lakshmi Mobile Accessories (W.A.NO.258 OF 2025) The Assessee received consolidated Show Cause Notice under Section 74 of CGST Act for FY 2017-18 to 2023-24. The Assessee challenged such SCN in the writ petitioner wherein it was held that the department is required to issue separate SCN for every assessment year.
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ThomsonReuters
MARCH 10, 2025
Blog home Ronan Le Gall , along with his colleagues Tim Carpenter , partner and principal at EY who leads the indirect tax technology practice for the Americas , and Vanessa Grazziotin Dexheimer , Senior Manager at EY in indirect tax and global VAT were discussing the power of clean data as an end-to-end solution for indirect direct tax processes at the Thomson Reuters Synergy Conference.
CPA Practice
MARCH 10, 2025
WalletHub released a new study examining which states had the highest and lowest state and local tax rates to determine where residents are giving the most and least money back to their respective governments.
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ThomsonReuters
MARCH 10, 2025
Blog home For large companies operating in a digitalized global economy, indirect tax compliance has evolved from an arduous manual task to a largely hands-off process performed by sophisticated tax technologies that execute most tax functionsdata gathering, computation, reconciliation, invoicing, reporting, filing, etc.automatically and in close to real time.
CPA Practice
MARCH 10, 2025
Total retail sales, excluding automobiles and gasoline, were down 0.22% seasonally adjusted month over month but up 3.38% unadjusted.
Accounting Today
MARCH 10, 2025
The Top 50 Firm is expanding further in Canada by adding locations in the greater Toronto area and Calgary.
CPA Practice
MARCH 10, 2025
Gartner polled 192 CFOs and finance leaders from a cross-industry group of organizations with global operations about priorities in response to new tariffs.
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Accounting Today
MARCH 10, 2025
Firms everywhere are adopting alternative practice structures -- but who knows what an APS really is? William Kelly, chief counsel at Ascend, dives into the details.
CPA Practice
MARCH 10, 2025
AuditBoard's new features enable customers to audit with impactful, industry-trained, generative AI-powered workflows.
Accounting Today
MARCH 10, 2025
The possible rule changes would affect the alternative practice structures set up by accounting firms receiving private equity financing.
CPA Practice
MARCH 10, 2025
Internal audit functions that are more strongly aligned with overall organizational strategy are more likely to have sufficient funding.
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.
Accounting Today
MARCH 10, 2025
The Apax Partners deal will add more capabilities for the firm to expand geographically in its existing areas as well as new territory.
CPA Practice
MARCH 10, 2025
Anxiety that tariffs and government firings will torpedo growth in the worlds largest economy extended a three-week stretch of volatility across global markets.
Accounting Today
MARCH 10, 2025
Deep in the heart of busy season, you may not be feeling much empathy for clients who have been procrastinating and are so disorganized, but you should.
CPA Practice
MARCH 10, 2025
Amid continuing tariff turmoil, imports at the nations major container ports are expected to remain elevated through this spring but volume could see year-over-year drops this summer.
Speaker: Kim Beynon, CPA, CGMA, PMP
The most overlooked, yet most critical, element of transformation is preparing people for change. Automation and AI aren't just technical upgrades, they’re cultural shifts which can challenge identities. That’s why change management isn’t a side project—it’s the foundation. In finance, where precision and process rule, navigating change can feel especially disruptive.
Insightful Accountant
MARCH 10, 2025
More than 700 Ballots for the 2025 ProAdvisor Awards have already been cast. Have you cast yours?
CPA Practice
MARCH 10, 2025
Cybercriminals are creating free accounts on the Intuit QuickBooks platform, which makes these attacks challenging for people to distinguish from genuine communications.
Insightful Accountant
MARCH 10, 2025
The 2025 tax season continues to evolve with significant changes at the IRS, new scam alerts, and updates to Corporate Transparency Act enforcement. Here's what tax practitioners need to know.
CPA Practice
MARCH 10, 2025
The Crowe global network of accounting firms brought in a combined $5.8 billion in revenue last year, a 10% year-on-year increase.
Speaker: Mark Gilham, FCCA, CPP
Finance used to be the function that counted, now it's the one that’s counted on. 📊 For accounting firms, controllers, and finance leaders, expectations are rising faster than headcount. Businesses want agile forecasts, granular analysis, seamless reporting, and smart automation—often without added resources while demanding uncompromised accuracy and compliance.
Accounting Today
MARCH 10, 2025
UBS France retaliated against its former auditor by sidelining him and refusing to promote him to executive director after he disclosed information to bosses.
CPA Practice
MARCH 10, 2025
The top 35 firm is expanding its reach in Canada by merging in WBM Partners, a Burlington, Ontario-based accounting and advisory firm, in a deal expected to be completed on June 1.
CTP
MARCH 10, 2025
Have you ever had a client bring you a tax strategy that sounded too good to be true? Even if a tax savings idea is setting off alarm bells for you, you may not be sure how to refute it when your client is the one bringing it up with enthusiasm. Of course, in an ideal scenario, you would be ahead of the game and hearing about common tax scams before your clients, so you can preemptively warn them not to heed these get-rich-quick schemes of the tax world.
CPA Practice
MARCH 10, 2025
The committees Alternative Practice Structures Task Force will seek comment through June 15 on the memos preliminary conclusions and two interpretation options.
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CTP
MARCH 10, 2025
Tax avoidance versus tax evasion: can you name the difference? The distinction is absolutely essential and can mean the difference between tax savings and jail time. Tax avoidance is the term used to describe legal strategies for lowering your tax bill by structuring your transactions so that you reap the largest tax benefits. Tax evasion, on the other hand, is an attempt to reduce your tax liability by concealing information or otherwise deceiving the IRSin other words, committing a tax-related
Going Concern
MARCH 10, 2025
Good morning! Hope you didn’t have to waste too much time yesterday setting all your antiquated manual clocks forward like I did. Care for some news? This post from r/CPA popped up when I was scrolling over the weekend, the turnaround gave me a chuckle. OP: FAR isn't that hard you guys! You can do it! OP 9 hours later: Just kidding I was drunk when I said that, it's hard. pic.twitter.com/BnwbIRzXEM — Going Concern (@going_concern) March 9, 2025 If you missed this earlier post
CPA Practice
MARCH 10, 2025
U.S. small businesses are planning for 2025 to be a year of growth and optimismand they're urging Congress and the Trump administration to prioritize tax reform, address inflation, enhance workforce development, cut regulatory red tape, and increase access to capital, according to a new survey from Goldman Sachs.
Accounting Today
MARCH 10, 2025
The bill would claw back $20.2 billion in spending for the IRS passed as part of President Joe Biden's signature green-energy Inflation Reduction Act.
Speaker: Cheryl J. Muldrew-McMurtry
Distributed finance teams are rewriting how the back-office runs, and attackers are taking notes. Disconnected workflows, process blind spots, and rising cyber threats are more than just growing pains—they’re liabilities. The challenge isn’t just going remote. It’s building resilient systems that protect accuracy, control, and speed across every transaction and touchpoint.
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