Audit committee oversight, mergers and acquisitions, currency risk, cybersecurity, foreign currency risk and executive compensation are among the big topics likely to dominate annual shareholders meetings this spring, according to BDO USA. READ MORE »
Listening to convention wisdom may set you up to fail. Here’s some data-based evidence for what works and what doesn’t when offering financial services to tax clients. VIEW THIS INFOGRAPHIC TO LEARN MORE »
The Internal Revenue Service has temporarily suspended the Identity Protection PIN tool on its website after security vulnerabilities were discovered in the service, which is intended to help victims of identity theft. READ MORE »
The following is a short story I distribute to my beginning undergraduate accounting students and those graduate students who are finishing their master’s degrees. It is intended to stimulate their reading comprehension and ignite their critical thinking as to how numbers play such an important role in business as in life... READ MORE »
As March 8th marks International Women’s Day, a new report, titled Women in Business 2016: Turning promise into practice (based on the annual Grant Thornton survey of 5,520 businesses in 36 economies) reveals a slight increase of women in senior management positions, from 22% to 24%. Yet approximately one-third of businesses still do not have women in leadership positions. READ MORE »
KPMG and IBM announced plans to apply IBM’s Watson cognitive computing technology to KPMG’s professional service offerings, with a focus on auditing services. READ MORE »
The Internal Revenue Service’s delays in processing taxpayer correspondence are lengthening, leading to delayed tax refunds and bigger interest payments from the IRS, according to a new report. READ MORE »
A group of mostly conservative public policy organizations have sent a letter to members of the House of Representatives asking them to oppose legislation that would require licensing of paid tax preparers. READ MORE »
The U.S. Supreme Court turned away appeals from three financial-services companies that sought to save a total of $1.5 billion by using a tax-avoidance strategy designed by Barclays Plc. READ MORE »
John Raspante of NAPLIA explains in this video why failing to detect fraud is such a common claim in malpractice lawsuits against accountants and how to protect your firm against it. READ MORE »
Millennials have a very different set of priorities when deciding where they want to work than previous generations. Employers need to ensure they are tailoring their organizations in order to find and keep millennial talent. Here are some suggestions from Henner Schliebs, VP and head of finance audience marketing at SAP. READ MORE »
Addressing the Indirect Tax Challenges Facing Communications Providers, an Aberdeen Group white paper brought to you by Avalara, outlines key obstacles communications service providers face in tax management. READ MORE »
