Enjoy complimentary access to top ideas and insights — selected by our editors. This week’s stats focus on the number of client accounting services firms that focus on specific industry niches, current and projected standard deductions for 2024 and 2025, independence-related comment forms in Public Company Accounting Oversight Board inspections,
Preparer Tax Identification Number renewal season is underway for all tax professionals Tax professionals and Enrolled Agents must have a valid PTIN to prepare any federal tax returns for compensation. PTINs expire on Dec. 31 and must be renewed annually. The fee to obtain or renew a PTIN for 2025
Suha UddinBRIAN BOUMAN MEMORY CREATIO Suha Uddin was hired as a tax partner at RRBB Advisors, Somerset. Sax, Paterson, announced that its annual run/walk event SAX 4 Miler, supporting the Child Life Department at St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital in Paterson, has achieved $1 million in total funds raised since its
Top 25 Firm Armanino LLP has taken on a strategic minority investment from private equity firm Further Global Capital Management. The deal, which closed today, is the latest in the series of investments by private equity in large accounting firms that began in 2021 — but with a key difference,
The Securities and Exchange Commission has been constantly revising its stance on how public companies should report their climate impact. These ongoing changes are keeping auditors, companies and investors confused. After proposing ambitious rules in 2022, the SEC adopted a scaled-back version in 2024. The new rules are set forth
Tax cuts and Mickey’s slice; avoiding FBARs; COLA wars; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers. Through the roof Tax Vox (https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox): Kamala Harris has released an ambitious economic agenda that includes expanding family credits, an exemption for tip income and a commitment not to raise taxes on those earning less than
Enjoy complimentary access to top ideas and insights — selected by our editors. Systems run a business, not people. People run the systems. Without good systems and compliance, most businesses will have as many systems as there are people. Think about any successful franchise, with McDonald’s, Subway and Jersey Mike’s
The U.S. and U.K. firms of global accounting network RSM International announced that they are planning on combining as a single firm by the end of 2025. The proposed combination would create a transatlantic giant with over 23,000 professionals and annual revenues of $5 billion, with locations in the U.S.,
Rabia Elif Aksoy Workflow management solutions provider Financial Cents announced that Workflow Con 2024, a virtual event for accounting and bookkeeping professionals looking to scale their firms with greater operational freedom, will take place Oct. 22, 23 and 24. This year’s theme is “Freedom to Scale” and is about breaking
Centri Business Consulting, Philadelphia, partnered with City Year, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting systemically under-resourced students and schools, for its second annual companywide Community Collaboration Day during which staff donated $15,000 of essential goods to provide 1,450 students with resources. Louis Plung & Co. announced they are relocating their headquarters