This article was adapted for CPAJournal.com. Portions of this article were previously published by professional societies. For a list of resources and information on Hurricane Harvey,…
The modern marvel of Facebook and other social networking sites has been consuming the leisure time of many Americans for quite a while now, and…
Over the past eight years, financial professionals' interest in bitcoin and other digital currencies has increased, and now regulators have taken notice. The federal government…
The Computer Crime Research Center defines cyber-crime as “the commitment of crime using electronic technology means.” It can be a theft of assets, a destruction…
State and Local Government Pensions at the Crossroads
Updating Accounting Standards Highlight the Challenges
In Brief Underfunding, questionable investment decisions, imperfect assumptions on future market returns, declining interest rates, and the structure of defined benefit plans have created a…
With the recent devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey, the editors of The CPA Journal thought it appropriate to re-present this article from December 2016…
Sifting through the Internet to find the answer to a specific question can be a daunting task. This article compiles some of the most useful…
The high costs of long-term care affect an increasing number of individuals and their families. According to Genworth's 2016 Cost of Care Survey (http://bit.ly/2ngymTT), the…
The word “sustainability” can have a lot of definitions. We can think about sustainability from an environmental perspective, but we can also think about sustainability…
The Chief Information Security Officer
The New CFO of Information Security
Traditionally, CPAs have considered the chief financial officer (CFO) as the guardian of a business's organizational data. It was and remains the CFO's responsibility to…
The Coming Disruption of Drones, Robots, and Bots
How Will It Affect CPAs and Accounting Practice?
Drones, mechanical robots, and robotic software processes are augmenting, assisting, and, in some cases, replacing human workers in almost every industry. The common assumption that…
Tax professionals, and also the general public, well know by now that U.S. taxpayers are required to report foreign financial accounts to the government. Since…
In contemplating the nuances of why financial planning makes sense for CPAs, I thought of the old story about the ship with the stubborn captain.…
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. —Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night (Introduction) For most…