2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (379+ words) Jeffrey C. LeSage, former KPMG-Americas vice chairman of tax, agreed. He said he saw a lot of partners that would "hide behind that book of business" and not be active with business development. More people, he said, will need to embrace…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (135+ words) You can see the full 2026 report and our Midsized and Large Firm lists on AccountingToday.com. An introduction to the midsized and large members of Accounting Today's annual ranking of the top workplaces in the profession. A federal appeals court…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (133+ words) You can see the full 2026 report and our Small Firm lists on AccountingToday.com. An introduction to the midsized and large members of Accounting Today's annual ranking of the top workplaces in the profession. A federal appeals court upheld a…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (284+ words) Audit and risk solutions platform Caseware announced new upgrades that allow users to bring the company's AI agents into Microsoft Excel as part of the most recent expansion of its Caseware Verity AI offering, first introduced in May. The company…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (163+ words) Digital payments solutions provider Paystand announced the general availability of its agentic finance suite, which brings AI agents into accounts receivable, spend management and reporting on its B2B payment network. "Agentic finance does not mean giving software unlimited authority," Almond said....

5+ day, 19+ hour ago   (805+ words) It's no secret that accountants love benchmarking. Internally, accounting firms benchmark their revenue per employee or productive hours against industry averages because benchmarking provides context. Yet few apply the same discipline to one of their biggest investments: their people. Recruiting…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago   (188+ words) Sooner or later a practitioner gets the call. A client's vendors, or the client's own customers, are receiving invoices and payment-change requests from an address inside the client's company, and nobody there sent them. The messages read correctly. They reference…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago   (127+ words) A growing share of prospects now ask AI questions like "who is the best CPA firm for a small business near me" and act on the three or four names the model gives them. The IRS will be cracking down…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (266+ words) Confronted by a chronic talent shortage, fee compression and ever-increasing workloads, more U.S. accounting firms are turning to offshore talent. In earlier columns I've talked about the payoff from offshoring when it's done patiently and correctly. But there are some things…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (300+ words) "The remote population proved the model works: hiring stayed strong, performance stayed strong, culture stayed strong, for half the company, for years. So instead of continuing to manage the divide, we realized the better path was to build one team…...