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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 [...]

The 1994 tax season is shaping up as the most challenging and most profitable one in years for many of the nation's practitioners. New twists in the tax act of [...]

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 [...]

Thanks largely to the increased individual tax rate build into the 1993 tax act, the S corporation structure is losing its luster in the business community. Indeed, the new tax [...]

Faced with an Internal Revenue Service crackdown on abuses and stiff penalties for non-compliance, Corporate America is turning to accounting firms in increasing numbers for strategies in dealing with the [...]

Tax practitioners are scrambling to exploit the business opportunities the Revenue Reconciliation Act of 1993 has put on their plate. The accounting profession is expecting a sharp increase in billable [...]

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 [...]

Thanks to spiraling tax rates and more aggressive governmental audit and collection procedures, state and local taxes are becoming an increasingly important facet of tax and accounting practices. With revenue-starved [...]

Tax accountants have closed the book on what is widely reported to be one of the most profitable tax seasons in years. But it may also have been the last [...]

When sole practitioner Danny Outlaw's insurance premium for his twoperson staff doubled last year to $496 a month he scrapped his insurance program completely. Instead, he gave modest salary mcreases [...]

An uncertain tax outlook and aging Baby Boomers looking to retirement are sparking a resurgence of personal financial planning work for CPAs. This change in fortunes, a reversal of the [...]

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 [...]

With gridlock no longer a political threat, many tax professionals expect President Clinton to sign a comprehensive new tax law no later than mid-1993. The Clinton administration, which considers tax [...]

Today's aging Baby Boomers are providing tax practitioners a new world to conquer--estate planning. Many accounting firms have not only found the niche a growing one, but a lucrative one [...]

Many small businesses think the economy is on the rebound. More than a quarter, 26 percent, of small business owners responding in a national survey believe the economy has already [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Cost-conscious accounting firms are sharply cutting expenditures for continuing professional education to half or a third of last year's levels by eliminating travel budgets. Rather than relying on outside sources, [...]