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).
November 8, 2017
New Tech Brings Businesses Up to Speed on Digital Payments
One of the big reasons checks persist is supplier enablement. Bank-based electronic payment products require customers keep track of what payment type their supplier accepts, and maintain all the supplier's information, including their bank account or ...
November 7, 2017
New QuickBooks Capital Eases Small Business Lending
Intuit Inc. has launched QuickBooks Capital, a lending product that helps small businesses get the capital they need to succeed. Building on Intuit’s long history of using leading edge data science and machine learning, QuickBooks Capital has ...
November 7, 2017
Workers Who Quit Their Jobs Earn More?
Job holders' wages grew by 4.4 percent and job switchers' wages grew slightly less by 3.3 percent year over year in the third quarter. On average, job holders' hourly wage levels were $10 more than that of job switchers. Tracking full-time workers ...
November 7, 2017
The Challenges of Financing Water Infrastructure Projects
Construction firms, utilities, municipalities – all have a stake in addressing how to best finance infrastructure projects heading into 2018. Especially the water industry, which faces a number of unique factors and challenges in getting projects off ...
November 7, 2017
AICPA Awards Scholarships to Grad Students with Non Business Backgrounds
The one-year $5,000 scholarship, part of the AICPA’s Legacy Scholars Program, is awarded to students who come from liberal arts or non-traditional business backgrounds and are now pursuing graduate accounting degrees and working towards their CPA ...
November 7, 2017
Accounting & Financial Women’s Alliance Announces Awards
The National Awards recognize outstanding women who exemplify AFWA’s core values in career and life, and set a positive example for other women in the accounting and finance industries.
November 7, 2017
Adaptive Insights Adds Financial and Operational Planning
The third major software release of the year, Adaptive Suite 2017.3, brings new features and functions that continue to deliver on the company’s commitment to offer a planning, reporting, and analytics platform that enables businesses to adopt an ...
November 6, 2017
50% of Businesses Still Use Paper Checks – But They Won’t For Long
Lack of adoption for electronic payments in B2B transactions is still a widespread problem. With 50 percent of businesses still using paper checks as their primary mode of payment, the inefficient paper processes maintained by accounting professionals ...
November 2, 2017
Right Networks Acquires Xcentric
The acquisition combines two customer-centric, accounting vertical-focused market leaders, bringing together a comprehensive set of offerings that address every step of the cloud journey for CPA firms, accounting professionals and their SMB clients.
November 1, 2017
Fighting Fraud in the Real-Time Digital Economy
Modern businesses with high growth targets no longer use the slow-build “brick and mortar” approach, instead they’re built from the ground up with digital and global operations in mind. The phenomenon began with ecommerce and adtech - essentially the ...
November 1, 2017
AICPA Renews Mutual Recognition Agreement with Mexico and Canada Accounting Societies
Signers of the 5-year MRA renewal are the AICPA, NASBA, Comité Mexicano para la Práctica Internacional de la Contaduría and Instituto Mexicano de Contadores Públicos, A.C., and CPA Canada.
November 1, 2017
Here’s Why Accountants (Yes, YOU!) Should Be Driving AI Innovation
From blockchain to smart automation to artificial intelligence, accountants today can work smarter than ever. How does that work? Today, we can all benefit from these tools to save time on tedious administrative work and focus more on up-leveling our ...