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Byline: Rachael Singh ACCA research shows board positions still dominated by men, with PwC report highlighting the UK has slipped down the Women in Work Index THE NUMBER OF WOMEN [...]

Byline: Danielle Lee Change is a word I use often in covering the next generation of accountants. It's a word capable of conjuring myriad emotions: trepidation, fear and excitement. I [...]

In my first five months with Accounting Today, I've discovered a trend among many accounting professionals. It's not earth-shattering, but for someone with a network of 'creative-type' friends whose tax [...]

NEW YORK (FNS) -- Apparel manufacturers, faced with the uncertainties of the Persian Gulf war and weakness in the banking industry, are being warned by their accountants to act with [...]

What's New In QuickBooks 2008: Part I BY DOUG SLEETER Intuit recently released the 2008 version of QuickBooks. This version is a relatively minor update to the product, but there [...]

What the future holds for the CPA profession is about as predictable as what has transpired during the last 10 years. The only thing we know for sure, the only [...]

Accounting firms in Southeast Michigan are on a hiring spree, buoyed in part by mergers and acquisitions and by a flurry of investments by private-equity firms who need due diligence [...]

Byline: Accountancy Age Picking your brains could win you £1,000 worth of travel We want to know what you think about work. How do you see yourself, how do others [...]

Byline: TS You Ken not be serious In quieter moments, TS will scour the web, looking for anything funny and interesting to do with accountancy. It can take some time, [...]

Byline: Kevin Reed 'Inflation-busting' fees hike at ICAEW Kevin Reed ICAEW members are facing an inflation-busting increase in their subscription fees for 2008, which will rake in an extra £1m. [...]

Equality's not just a pipe dream When I joined Pricewaterhouse-Coopers more than 30 years ago there were about 100 of us in that year's graduate intake. Only two were women [...]

It's an age-old question: Can you teach an old dog a new trick? We've all heard, ad nauseam, how CPAs despise change. Yet this is not exactly true. The CPA […]

The accounting profession's reputation has bounced back after the cooling of the scandals that led to the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, according to research commissioned by the AICPA, and [...]

I don't claim to be a futurist, but feel my following predictions have a better than 50-50 chance of occurring in the next three to five years: * Firms will [...]

One of the hottest topics in CPA circles these days is the foreign outsourcing of tax preparation services. Many CPAs were caught off guard by the emergence and rapid adoption [...]

In 2005, the AICPA will celebrate its 20th year in supporting CPAs as they continue their role in the expanding field of personal financial planning (PFP). In many respects, the [...]

Practice profits could increase by 40 per cent over the first three years of the new GMS contract. This figure is close to the 50 per cent originally forecast by [...]

The Michigan Accountancy Foundation (MAF) continues to breathe life into its commitment to support excellence in accounting education and assist tomorrow's CPAs. Over the past two years, 28 scholarships have [...]

As news of Arthur Andersen's collapse and other corporate scandals mounted last year, Phil Laskawy, the former chairman and chief executive of Ernst & Young, expected to get a lot [...]

Allen Blewitt, General Manager of Standards for the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, and five other experts express their views on the future of the accounting profession.

I believe that with the recent trends in the profession, two levels of an accounting firm will continue to develop; namely, large national practices and smaller local practitioners. I also […]

As the pool of accounting students shrinks, employers scramble to beg, borrow, or steal entry-level finance staffers. LIKE A RIVER AFTER A DROUGHT hits at its source, the flow of [...]

Much has been made of the dangers posed to the traditional brokerage industry by online investment firms such as E*Trade and National Discount Brokers. But while the threat of low-cost [...]

In previous columns we focused on the work of corporate accountants. They're doing more analysis and strategic planning and less statement preparation and transactional work. The accountants we interviewed in [...]

Representatives of AICPA technology committees gathered in Tucson, Arizona, to identify the 10 most important technological challenges and opportunities facing CPAs in 2000. Throughout its lively three-day discussion, the group [...]

On-line trading... Internet banking... Smart Cards... XML... This much is clear: Technology is redefining the way we work. And while the digital society is making transactions easier, it compels the [...]

The CPA "brand" will differentiate us from the competition. Election to chairman of the board of the AICPA is a great honor' It comes by vote of my peers, which [...]

As consolidators like Century Business Services and American Express gobble accounting firms left and right, industry watchdogs are sounding the alarm about the threat consolidation poses to the profession's most […]