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).
June 25, 2018
TaxSlayer Launches Workful – New Small Business Suite with Payroll, HR and Point of Sale
Workful’s two main offerings are a payroll manager and an HR manager, with a point of sale (POS) system soon to join. With the payroll tool, company managers can easily automate payroll for employees by syncing with their employee’s timesheets, ...
June 25, 2018
Business Confidence Exceeds Crisis Preparedness
This year's study uncovered dramatic gaps between a company's confidence that they can respond to crises and its level of preparedness. The gap becomes even more evident when evaluating whether organizations have conducted ...
June 25, 2018
Zillow to Start Buying and Selling Homes Directly
Las Vegas follows Phoenix and becomes the second market where Zillow will directly buy homes, prepare them for sale, and list them as part of its Instant Offers test. The program, which has operated in Phoenix since April, offers consumers convenience...
June 25, 2018
Wymer Brownlee Plans to Double Client Assets in 6-8 Years
To lay the foundation for its growth plan, WBWS has hired professionals across multiple disciplines in recent months, such as law, tax, accounting and marketing, to increase its expertise and capacity to provide holistic wealth management services, as ...
June 25, 2018
Are Grants Subject to Revenue Recognition?
Revenue recognition brought to light a diversity of practice in the way that nonprofit organizations and funders classified grants and contracts from federal, state and local governments and other funding sources such as foundations in the financial ...
June 25, 2018
AICPA and Small Business Administration Form Alliance
As part of this collaboration, the AICPA will be able to direct CPAs whose clients are confronting federal regulatory compliance or enforcement challenges to designated SBA Office of the National Ombudsman (ONO) contacts for assistance in resolving ...
June 25, 2018
Machine Learning and Digital Finance: Empowering Intelligent and Integrated Payment Clearing
In today’s real-time digital world, businesses need to adapt to dynamic opportunities quickly. Finance teams in particular are under pressure to reduce their operating costs, while acting as a strategic partner to various parts of the business. The expectations are clear – reduce the effort spent on manual, routine tasks and focus on new insights...…
June 25, 2018
Forward-Looking Statements Still Mislead Investors, Despite Disclaimers
The first is that, when nonprofessional investors are presented with either of two press releases announcing earnings results for the same company, one containing optimistic forward-looking statements the other not, the former elicits a markedly ...
June 25, 2018
Bill.com Launches New Accountant Resource Center
As accounting firms look to grow their firms and expand their client accounting services (CAS) practices, they are finding automated payment solutions like Bill.com an ideal entry point for clients to easily outsource more of their accounting needs.
June 22, 2018
Thomson Reuters Passes 250 Firm Milestone with Progressive Practice Forward Offering
Thomson Reuters is marking the 250th firm to benefit from Practice Forward, an innovative program that guides firms through a business model transformational roadmap, culminating in a client service approach that is proactive, harnesses the unique ...
June 22, 2018
Detecting and preventing expense reimbursement fraud
According to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners’ 2018 Report to the Nations, expense reimbursement fraud accounts for 21 percent of fraud in small businesses (
June 22, 2018
How the ‘Hollywood Model’ of Work Could Change HR and Accounting
When someone talks about the Hollywood model, they are referring to the workplace methods movie studios use to make films. While most of us tend to think of films based on the actors who star in them—or perhaps based on the directors who made them ..