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Ask the Accounting Today 100 Most Influential People the most important issues they face and most mention legal liability, recruiting and technology. Though many say there are other significant trends [...]

THE EFFICIENCY EFFECT Arthur Andersen Sets the Pace by Wringing Out Productivity Gains By focusing almost single-mindedly on efficiency and shunning the mergers that have troubled other Big Six competitors, [...]

TAMPA, FLA. - Investment strategies and health care costs are emerging as the hot new issues in the financial planning arena. With the baby boomers reaching retirement age and new [...]

A whole new generation of accountant -- computer-literate, -equipped, and -eager -- appears to be changing forever the way continuing professional education is conceived, delivered and taken. Vendors and regulators [...]

The Internal Revenue Service's market segment specialization program is receiving solid support from tax practitioners across the country. The program, CPAs agree, will make IRS audits fairer, faster and geographically [...]

Tax practitioners are not waiting for passage of the Clinton administration's widely-publicized health care reform program to capitalize on the planning opportunities it offers. Well aware that enactment is months [...]

The electronic filing fraternity is preparing for a sharp increase in activity this year The Internal Revenue Service, for instance, expects 14.1 million tax returns to be filed electronically during [...]

Filing by touch-tone telephone? Paying Uncle Sam by credit card? Paperless return preparation? A value-added tax on the books? These developments may sound a bit off the wall now, but [...]

Redondo Beach, Calif. -- Stein Thompson Ward Inc. is a small accounting firm that is thinking big. Founding partners Pat Stein, Kevin Thompson and Artemas Ward celebrated the firm's first [...]

St. Louis - The Internal Revenue Service is calling on practitioners to help tackle what Commissioner Peggy Richardson considers one of the biggest challenges facing it and the profession, implementation [...]

CHICAGO - Two local accounting firm competitors are taking their rivalry to new heights with mirrorimage internal overhauls. Both Altschuler, Melvoin & Glasser and Checkers Simon & Rosner are re [...]

Washington -- The Internal Revenue Service is assisting in Midwest flood relief efforts and is making it easier for charities to aid victims. At the same time, it has extended [...]

DES MOINES, IOWA -- When flooding knocked out this city's water system and forced the evacuation of downtown offices, local CPA firms scrambled to minimize any disruption of service the [...]

PEORIA, Ill.--If all goes as planned, Clifton Gunderson & Co. will be a firm with $80 million in billings, a staff of 1,000, and 125 to 130 partners by the [...]

NEW YORK -- If Berenson & Co. does not achieve its goal of becoming the leading full-service accounting firm for the exploding entrepreneurial, emerging business sector, it won't be the [...]

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Revocation of Harvey Rudman's CPA certificate by the Missouri State Board of Accountancy was the climax of a 13-year trail of fraud, forgery and deception. It [...]

DAVENPORT, IOWA -- McGladrey & Pullen is doubling its efforts to help its closely-held business clients capitalize on the growing international market. Plans call for the country's ninth largest accounting [...]

Worried by what some call the profession's ticking time bomb, more and more accounting firms are beginning to set aside cash now for their future obligations to retiring partners. The [...]

BETHESDA, MD. -- A CPA-attorney has parlayed a $700,000 tax seminar business into an operation with more than $4 million in revenues by catering to the basic informational needs of [...]

The widely publicized controversy over hiring illegal aliens and its tax implications is generating a flurry of activity for accounting firms across the country. Accountants say that the furor over [...]

The tax simplification movement is receiving strong support from high ranking government officials these days. Harry Gutman, chief of staff of the congressional Joint Committee on Taxation, and Gary Gasper, [...]

The 1993 tax season is shaping up to be the most competitive ever for many practitioners across the country. The challenges this year are indeed imposing, thanks largely to the [...]

With no significant new tax laws on the books last year, CPAS are ready to tackle what could be their last smoothly running filing season for some time. Many practitioners [...]

The accounting profession is pulling out all stops to make this Christmas a merry one for the needy. And many are making it a personal cause. 'This year we decided [...]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Warning that small firms are as vulnerable to lawsuits as the Big Six, speakers at a major practice management conference here told CPAs to switch from [...]

When President Bush vetoed the $27 billion tax bill passed by Congress, the accounting profession breathed a conective sigh of relief. With the rejection of H.R. 11, practitioners now see [...]

Tax practitioners are watching closely the Internal Revenue Service's highly publicized crackdown to 10 million tax non-filers, but see little plus business coming their way from the campaign. The IRS [...]

A new civil-rights law for the disabled is catching many businesses by surprise and creating some healthy opportunities for CPA firms. Grant Thornton, Altschuler Melvoin & Glasser in Chicago, Israeloff [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Internal Revenue Service is showing its humanitarian side again by extending filing and payment deadlines to individual and corporate taxpayers devastated by Hurricane Andrew last month. The [...]

NEW YORK - In a move designed to meet the rapidly changing needs of its clients, Coopers & Lybrand has completed one of the most dramatic restructuring programs the accounting [...]

Price Waterhouse' Top Partner Tackles Professional Issues, Global Opportunities Shaun O'Malley bestrides several realms of the accounting profession. Each of them provides a unique vantage point. As chairman and senior [...]

IRS Chief Commits To Simplify Taxes WASHINGTON -- Incoming Internal Revenue Service commissioner Shirley D. Peterson pledged to continue efforts to streamline tax collection procedures and make sure that taxpayers [...]

Aims to Resurrect Earnings NEW YORK -- Coopers & Lybrand will be focusing on increasing one-time engagements and boosting realization rates per hour in its campaign to stem the slide [...]

Peter Scanlon Looks Back On 40 Years of NEW YORK - When Peter Scanlon entered the accounting profession in 1952, engagements were limited to audit and tax preparation, women had [...]

AICPA Scraps Ballot Method NEW YORK - Supporters of the five dissident members who forced the American Institute of CPAs to change its balloting procedures on controversial self-regulatory requirements are [...]

Unleash The IRS Watchdog WASHINGTON - Leading taxpayer advocacy groups testified at a Congressional hearing that the Internal Revenue Service ombudsman should be set free of the agency and independently [...]

Accounting firms across the country are giving collections and billings high priority in their campaigns to improve the bottom line during this recessionary period. Indeed, the firms are monitoring collections [...]

IRS Chief Backs Simplification NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- In a speech marked by frequent applause, IRS commissioner Fred T. Goldberg, Jr. came out in solid support of a tax simplification movement. [...]

Few Glitches Reported As Frenzy Begins With the big tax season moving into the home stretch, practitioners across the country say the preparation process is going surprisingly smoothly. The biggest [...]

For Planners, Living Trusts Pose Problems NEW YORK - Despite misgivings of some CPAs, living trusts are emerging as an important tool in the financial planning arena. Whether because of [...]

WETHERSFIELD, CONN. - A prominent local firm has elected to convert from a partnership to a limited liability company, an increasingly popular form of organization among accountants worried by the [...]

NEw YORK -- Veteran financial planning specialist Joel Isaacson has left the partnership of Clarfeld & Co. here to form his own company. Geared to provide fee-only financial planning services [...]

NEW YORK -- To Stuart Kessler, one of the most gratifying aspects of personal financial planning is its high realization rate. According to the Goldstein Golub Kessler & Co. partner, [...]

COLLINGSWOOD, NJ.- Renzi, Pinti & Co., a full-service accounting firm here, and Suarez & Associates, a Philadelphia auditing and business consulting operation, have merged to form Renzi, Bernardi, Suarez & [...]

CHICAGO -- Ask Harvey Coustan his goal as new chariman of the AICPA's tax division and he will tell you flatly it's updating educational standards for the profession. With industry [...]

Construction-industry clients, faced with one of their worst economic downturns on record, are increasingly turning to outside accountants for expertise in bonding, financing, contract claims litigation and tax planning. The [...]

BURBANK, Calif. - Triple Check Income Tax Service Inc., which claims to be the nation's second largest tax preparation service, is expanding its reach with a new consulting service for [...]

Scoffing at the grim future being predicted for them in some circles, sole practitioners and small accounting firms are moving aggressively to strengthen their position in the competitive accounting field. [...]

CPAs have been out in force to help the beleaguered lodging industry weather 1991, its worst year in history. Despite signs of an upturn in business in 1992, troubled hotel [...]

RICHMOND, Va. -- Howard Kies is the first to admit that 'we were caught with our pants down' last year. The managing partner of Cherry Bekaert & Holland is also [...]