Accounting February 6, 2026
AICPA News – Feb. 2026
AICPA News is a round-up of recent announcements from the American Institute of CPAs, the Association of International CPAs, and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA).
August 1, 2018
Workday Completes Acquisition of Adaptive Insights
Workday, Inc. a provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources, has completed its acquisition of Adaptive Insights, a leading cloud-based company for modernizing business planning. With Adaptive Insights now part of ...
August 1, 2018
Grant Thornton’s Jim Burton to Lead AICPA’s Assurance Services Executive Committee
The ASEC mission is to support the profession in serving the public interest by anticipating, identifying, assessing and addressing evolving market needs and demand for assurance and advisory solutions. ASEC develops relevant thought leadership, ...
August 1, 2018
Workiva Helps KeyBank Modernize Financial Operations
Gilbert’s technical accounting team maintains the bank’s accounting policies and implements new accounting standards established by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). Most recently, her team implemented the FASB Accounting Standards ...
August 1, 2018
Xero Acquires Hubdoc
This acquisition moves Xero even closer to achieving its vision for code-free accounting, enabling accountants to focus their efforts on helping small businesses make sense of their financial data, as opposed to collecting it.
July 31, 2018
How a Debt of $2,700 Can Get a Business Seized
Keeping your clients out of sales tax trouble and in compliance are very important, of course, but if clients slip up without your knowledge and run late on tax payments, one thing they may never see coming is a seizure of property.
July 30, 2018
Four Ways to Evolve Your Auditing Firm Today
By now, most of us have been exposed to some sort of doom and gloom message about automated systems and ‘robots’ taking over the future of the tax and accounting profession. Google “jobs most likely to be replaced by technology”, and you will notice ...
July 30, 2018
Entrepreneurs Optimistic About Business Outlook
On a scale of 1-100 with 1 representing the highest level of pessimism and 100 representing the peak of optimism, the Paychex poll revealed business owners rate their current business outlook overall at 65. Business outlook ranked second-highest to ...
July 30, 2018
Americans’ Financial Satisfaction at All-Time High on AICPA Index
After declining last quarter for the first time since Q3 2015, the PFS 750 Market Index rebounded 4.3 points (5.2 percent) from its Q1 2018 level to 89 and has once again reached an all-time high. It remains the leading contributor to the ...
July 30, 2018
Maryland Association of CPAs Names New Chair and Directors
Samantha Bowling, a partner at Garbelman Winslow CPAs in Upper Marlboro, Md., has been named chair of the Maryland Association of CPAs’ 2018-19 Board of Directors.
July 30, 2018
Future Uncertain for Deloitte CEO Engelbert
While Engelbert is eligible for another term at the helm of the firm, and could be renominated for the position, this likely means that Deloitte will appoint a new CEO during a leadership election in 2019.
July 30, 2018
Many Nonprofits Lack Financial Strength for Sustainable Growth
The BDO Institute for Nonprofit Excellence's second annual nonprofit benchmarking survey reveals that nonprofits’ hearts may be bigger than their wallets.
July 29, 2018
Half of U.S. Homes Finally Pass Pre-Recession Value
A decade after the U.S. housing market crashed, half of the country’s homes have regained the value they lost during the recession, according to the June Zillow Real Estate Market Report. Nationally, the median home value is $217,300, up 8.3 percent over the past year and 8.4 percent above the highest point of the housing...…