AccountingDepartment
APRIL 17, 2025
Accurate financial reporting is crucial for any small to medium-sized business (SMB) looking to grow sustainably. Without proper financial oversight, companies can face compliance risks, cash flow issues, and missed opportunities for strategic expansion. This is where a controller plays a vital role.
ThomsonReuters
APRIL 17, 2025
An enterprise resource planning (ERP) system can revolutionize your operations and boost data transparency, offering real-time insights that empower your organization to make smarter business decisions. With CFOs often leading an ERP implementation, its essential to embrace best practices and key considerations to maximize the project’s success.
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Anders CPA
APRIL 17, 2025
Many industries are facing talent shortages with most open positions receiving two or three applications on average. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics most recent Employment Situation Summary , Both the unemployment rate, at 4.2 percent, and the number of unemployed people, at 7.1 million, changed little in March. The unemployment rate has remained in a narrow range of 4.0 percent to 4.2 percent since May 2024.
TaxConnex
APRIL 17, 2025
Last time we looked at the damage that one companys past sales tax exposure and liability can do to an M&A deal. In that part, well examine what can be done about this exposure. Mitigation How can either or both parties in an M&A mitigate this exposure through further research or jurisdictions programs? (Bear in mind the buyer may be the one to determine mediation as part of due diligence or escrow.
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Menzies
APRIL 17, 2025
Menzies LLP - A leading chartered accountancy firm. Introduction At MWM Employee Benefits, we strive to keep our clients informed about important regulatory changes that impact their businesses. From April 2026, significant changes to the way Benefits in Kind (BiKs) are reported and taxed will come into effect. This article provides an overview of these changes and how they will benefit both employers and employees.
SkagitCountyTaxServices
APRIL 17, 2025
As I sit to write this, its the eve of Tax Deadline Day (Ill be sure to put milk and cookies out for Uncle Sam before leaving the office). Hope you feel the relief of putting your 2024 taxes behind you. Now, you can devote your attention to this other important thing happening: the tariffs. The back-and-forth here is a lot to keep up with (feeling a little BOI reporting deja vu, or is that just me?).
Accountant Advocate brings together the best content for small business accounting professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
CPA Practice
APRIL 17, 2025
Although cash transactions over $10,000 have long been reported under current law, now many transactions of as little as $200 will have to be reported in 30 ZIP Codes along the border with Mexico.
Accounting Today
APRIL 17, 2025
The Treasury and IRS plan to withdraw regulations that labeled basis-shifting transactions among partnerships and related parties as "transactions of interest.
CPA Practice
APRIL 17, 2025
Agentic AI is poised to significantly impact Public Accounting. Firms must adopt the right tools, governance strategies, and implementation approaches to successfully integrate Agentic AI into public accounting.
Accounting Today
APRIL 17, 2025
States including Florida, New Hampshire, Texas and South Carolina are the main ones attracting clients due to their tax-friendly policies.
Speaker: Gerald Ratigan
The accounts payable (AP) function is evolving and AI is leading the charge. As finance teams face rising invoice volumes and expectations for speed and accuracy, AI-powered automation has shifted from a futuristic concept to the most practical solution. But for finance leaders, success isn’t just about selecting the right tools, it’s about implementing the right strategy.
CPA Practice
APRIL 17, 2025
The FASB Not-for-Profit (NFP) Advisory Committee (the Committee) held its semiannual meeting on Thursday, March 20, 2025. The topics discussed included the following.
Accounting Today
APRIL 17, 2025
Share and share alike; fleecing the flock; United they fall; and other highlights of recent tax cases.
CPA Practice
APRIL 17, 2025
A new ranking for 2026 from career website Vault.com is now out to remind accountants and soon-to-be accountants in college about which public accounting firms are considered the most prestigious in the U.S.
Accounting Today
APRIL 17, 2025
The staff presentation videos aim to help firms implement the four components of QC 1000, A Firm's System of Quality Control.
Speaker: Sean Yoder
Nonprofits are under more pressure than ever to demonstrate financial accountability while continuing to expand their impact. Traditional budgeting models often fall short, reinforcing silos, limiting flexibility, and stalling growth. Enter collaborative budgeting: a dynamic, team-driven process that enables smarter resource allocation and builds financial resilience at scale.
CPA Practice
APRIL 17, 2025
For the third consecutive year, there was an increasealbeit a small onein the number of accounting-related securities class action filings in 2024, according to a new report from Cornerstone Research.
Accounting Today
APRIL 17, 2025
Optimism is building that a game-changing fund design that will help asset managers shrink clients' tax bills will soon be approved by the SEC.
CPA Practice
APRIL 17, 2025
Manual AR, AP and invoice processes lead to inefficiencies, compliance risks, payment delays and increased vulnerability to fraud.
Accounting Today
APRIL 17, 2025
The average U.S. homeowner paid $4,172 in property taxes last year, according to a report by real estate data firm ATTOM.
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
CPA Practice
APRIL 17, 2025
The RSM report provides insights into cybersecurity trends, strategies and concerns shaping the marketplace for midsize businesses.
Insightful Accountant
APRIL 17, 2025
Lili, the financial platform designed for small business owners, announced today the launch of a new suite of tools to help online merchants grow and scale their businesses.
CPA Practice
APRIL 17, 2025
The report also includes perspectives from Financial Accounting Foundation leaders, who provide the oversight and accountability that are fundamental to the standard-setting process.
Insightful Accountant
APRIL 17, 2025
In this episode of the Accounting Insiders Podcast, host Gary DeHart sits down with Julie Smith, Practice Manager at Harper & Co. CPAs. Julie shares her journey into the accounting space and her experience co-founding Pure Tax LLC and Empower CPA.
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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
Inform Accounting
APRIL 17, 2025
When starting a business, there are various decisions to make and tasks to perform. One of the first questions to address is whether to run the business as a sole trader, whether to set up a partnership with others or whether to form a company.
Accounting Today
APRIL 17, 2025
A Social Security floor-offset design, utilizing a sovereign wealth fund, can help alleviate current and future Social Security funding obligations.
CPA Practice
APRIL 17, 2025
Ford Motor Co. customers waiting to purchase a vehicle this summer could be in store for higher prices if President Donald Trump's tariffs remain unchanged.
Accounting Today
APRIL 17, 2025
Congress will be drafting its multitrillion tax cut proposal in the coming weeks, almost certainly reflecting the priorities of a small minority of constituents.
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CPA Practice
APRIL 17, 2025
Harvard Universitypushed back against the U.S. government after President Donald Trumpsaid the school should lose its tax-exempt status, warning that such a move would endanger its ability to carry out its mission and threaten higher education in America.
Accounting Today
APRIL 17, 2025
President Donald Trump is seriously considering ideas to raise taxes on the rich as a way to partially offset revenue losses from his tax package.
CPA Practice
APRIL 17, 2025
Billy Long, a former GOP lawmaker and President Donald Trumps nominee forIRS commissioner, disclosed innew federal filingson Tuesday that he paid himself back using campaign donations for a $130,000 loan he made to his failed 2022Senatecampaign.
Accounting Today
APRIL 17, 2025
The university pushed back against the U.S. government after President Donald Trump said the school should lose its tax-exempt status.
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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