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Each year, Accounting Today and Best Companies Group recognizes the 100 Best Firms to Work For in the U.S. — and this year we also picked the 10 Best Firms for Young Accountants from among those based on the responses of their younger staff to a comprehensive employee survey. View the full report on AccountingToday.com, […]
Off by $24 million; hard lessons; authentic fake; and other highlights of recent tax cases. New York: Accountant Salvatore Arena, 47, of Queens, New York, has pleaded guilty to defrauding clients out of more than $780,000. Arena purported to offer prep and payment of taxes. Instead of making payments on behalf of those clients, he […]
Whenever I speak to accountants about their relationship with technology, I find they are at a loss for realistic ideas about how to improve it. They understand they are reliant on technology both professionally and personally, but they still find themselves fatigued by it. In short, they need a better way. In an age where […]
SOX compliance may seem like a dry topic, but this crucial step on the road to going public can be transformational for high-growth companies — if they approach it in the right spirit. First, some background. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 established new requirements for public companies designed to surface errors in financial reporting that […]
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon., the ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, introduced legislation Wednesday to create two new tax incentives to help small businesses owned by women to hire and grow and get access to capital. The PROGRESS (Providing Real Opportunities for Growth to Rising Entrepreneurs for Sustained Success) Act would provide a new […]
Limits on collection; states’ tax friendliness; write your Chief Counsel; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers. Spook central Liberty (http://www.libertytax.com/tax-lounge): As a gift for your organizer (and your optimism that some clients may actually start lining up their ducks before January), here are “Four Tax Preparation Tips to Consider for 2020.” Taxbuzz (https://www.taxbuzz.com/blog): […]
Companies saw a significant impact from the lower corporate tax rate since the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act at the end of 2017, but not as many of them are planning to increase employee wages as a result, according to a new survey of corporate board members by BDO USA. Instead more […]
Nathan Wheeler, a 43-year-old CPA in Portland, Oregon, who also owns a marijuana business, was sentenced to 51 months in federal prison for wire fraud and tax evasion after embezzling nearly $1 million from an Olympic snowboarding medalist. Wheeler owned and operated Bridge City Advisors LLC, an accounting firm that offered investment and legal services […]
Tax software developer Avalara is planning to take on some new initiatives in the U.S. and abroad. “Cross-border, we believe, is a very exciting marketing opportunity for us,” said Ross Tennenbaum, general manager at Avalara, who recently joined the Seattle-based company from Goldman Sachs. “The way I think about it is you’re dissolving boundaries globally. […]
Everywhere you look these days, it seems like you can find people making big investments in the future of accounting, putting up money and time and effort to innovate in just about every area of the profession. Think of the Big Four spending millions on artificial intelligence, cognitive computing and the data-based tools and services […]
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