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Millennials are now the single largest generation, ranging from people in their mid-20s to mid-30s. This diverse group grew up in the information age and early on adopted the technology we now take for granted. It’s important for tax professionals to learn how to embrace this generation, and future generations, to accelerate their firm’s technology […]
As tax and HR professionals, we aren’t the only ones watching our industries transform. Social, economic, cultural and technological change is disrupting almost every industry and occupation. It’s generating a lot of talk. The question now is how do we turn this conversation into action? Here are six things to keep in mind as tax […]
This year, Jon Baron delivered his final keynote address in Orlando for Thomson Reuters’ annual user conference. The message was clear: Even as he retires, he sees a creative and tech-enabled future for the accounting profession. Baron, who is an accountant by background, has worked in accounting technology for four decades. He started his career […]
Bethany Hearn (pictured), principal with CliftonLarsonAllen, Champaign, was named Business Valuation Volunteer of the Year by the American Institute of CPAs. (Read the full story.) Joseph Horan was hired as executive director of CFO advisory services, a new service line that expands the consulting practice, at Johnson Lambert, Park Ridge.
The Accounting Financial Women’s Alliance announced the recipients of the 2018 Women Who Count Awards during the annual Women Who Count Awards lunch Oct. 30 in Kansas City. The winners in each category are: Academic Professional: Dr. Deborah Seifert, chair of the Department of Accounting, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois; Emerging Leader: Lindsey Barth, accounting […]
The Taxpayer Advocate Service’s Centralized Case Intake program should make some changes to provide better customer service for taxpayers, according to a new report. The report, from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, noted that during fiscal year 2017, the CCI program responded to more than 60,000 telephone calls from taxpayers. The Taxpayer Advocate […]
Squar Milner LLP, a Top 100 Firm based in Newport Beach, California, is combining with Boas Boas LLP, a firm based in San Francisco, effective Jan. 1, 2019. As part of the deal, Boas Boas’s 10 professionals and staff members will be relocating to Squar Milner’s existing offices in San Francisco, including partners David Arrick […]
Every year I speak with CPAs who bemoan the chaos and rush to file taxes for many of their business clients. While these professionals get the job done for their clients, it often takes more time (and increased cost) with a less than ideal product. The CPAs I speak with would prefer to have more […]
UHY Advisors and UHY LLP expanded Thursday in the Northeast by acquiring Flynn, Walker, Diggin CPA PC, a firm in Saratoga Springs, New York, effective Nov. 8, 2018. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. UHY Advisors, based in Chicago, ranked No. 32 on Accounting Today’s 2018 list of the Top 100 Firms, with […]
Pay increased for middle-market CEOs and CFOs by an average of nearly 5 percent in 2017, according to a new study by BDO USA. The BDO 600: 2018 Study of CEO and CFO Compensation Practices of Middle Market Public Companies examined total direct compensation for middle-market executives in eight industries, looking at the correlation between […]
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