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 3, 2016
Jon Baron Keynote: What Accounting Firms Need to Know for the 2020s
With massive changes and the continuing evolution of digital enviroments, as well as societal adoption of technologies, accounting firms need to accept and embrace that change, if they hope to be successful in the coming years.
November 2, 2016
LedgerDocs Partners With Fujitsu ScanSnap Cloud
Fujitsu’s partnership with LedgerDocs enables LedgerDocs users to eliminate the historic multi-step process of scanning and saving important information to the desktop of their computer and transferring in into an application. With ScanSnap Cloud, ...
November 2, 2016
Thomson Reuters Introduces Next-Gen Cloud Audit Suite
Thomson Reuters has unveiled Checkpoint Engage, the next-generation online audit solution providing auditors with new and innovative ways to streamline their audit workflow.
November 2, 2016
Patriot Software Introduces Multi-User Feature for Certified Advisors
Patriot’s new software feature will allow Certified Advisors in the Royalty Program to manage new users and give them access to a specific company.
November 2, 2016
Broader Skill Sets, New Learning Solutions are the Future for CPAs and Business Professionals
As a CPA or virtually any other type of business professional, it’s no longer enough to just maintain your current level of skills and competencies. It’s also no longer enough to just be proficient in the technical skills of your profession.
November 2, 2016
Audit Committees Have Increased Transparency of External Audit Oversight
The amount of information available to investors on audit committee oversight of the auditor continues to increase significantly, according to the latest edition of the Audit Committee Transparency Barometer, an annual report issued jointly by the ...
October 31, 2016
New Video Game Helps With CPA Exam Review Prep
Accounting for Empires uses correct answers to multiple-choice questions and task-based simulations to allow users to “build” and enhance their empire by earning gold and knowledge in hopes of amassing the ultimate CPA empire, and ultimately passing ...
October 31, 2016
Three Small Businesses Win $10,000 in Avalara Makeover Contest
Three businesses were recognized this month at Intuit’s QuickBooks Connect conference in San Jose, California, and each will receive a $10,000 small business marketing makeover, one free year of Avalara’s sales tax automation service, and a customer ...
October 31, 2016
The Importance of Cybersecurity for Small Businesses
America’s 28 million small businesses are especially at risk. According to a report published earlier this year, almost half of cyber-attacks worldwide are against businesses with less than 250 workers. Every time a small business owner connects to ...
October 31, 2016
GASB Proposes Implementation Guidance for Other Postemployment Benefit Plans
The Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) has issued an Exposure Draft of a proposed Implementation Guide that contains questions and answers intended to clarify, explain, or elaborate on the requirements of GASB Statement No. 74, Financial ...
October 28, 2016
Intuit and PayPal Expand Integration to Help Small Businesses Get Paid Faster
Intuit and PayPal expand their partnership to streamline payments in efforts to help small businesses get paid faster.
October 27, 2016
5 Steps To Prepare for New Overtime Pay Rules
The new overtime regulations will have a significant impact on some businesses. In the meantime, businesses can use the next several months to analyze their labor and productivity, and get a better understanding of what they will need to change to ...