IN BRIEF Fraud risk management has become increasingly important in the current business environment. How CPAs can best apply ...

Joint ventures have been a popular vehicle for businesses to work together to share competencies and knowledge to reach a mutually beneficial outcome. To resolve the diversity in practice for the ...

The recipients of stock compensation awards may be entitled to the dividends that companies pay on their underlying equity shares, while the stock awards are still outstanding but not vested (ASC ...

For several years now, declining enrollments in universities and high turnover at firms have posed a serious threat to the accounting profession’s viability. The solution is not merely a numbers game, ...

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (P.L. 119-21) was signed into law on July 4, 2025, and § 70204 of OBBBA added new IRC §§ 530A, 128, 6434, and 139J. IRC § 530A created Trump accounts, which are ...

In the course of fulfilling its mandate to protect investors, the PCAOB has conducted inspections of public firm audits and collected this data in order to analyze whether audit deficiencies (and, ...

Editors’ Note: The CPA Journal staff would like to acknowledge the recent passing of longtime column editor, author, and Editorial Advisory Board member Howard Levy. His column below is being ...

Today’s global workers and their employers are at risk of triggering US tax and compliance obligations. The stakes are high for CPAs serving global clients, such as executives on US assignments or ...

The accounting profession is built on trust, precision, and compliance—qualities that CPAs pride themselves on. But CPAs are increasingly finding themselves at the intersection of accounting and ...

Accounting Standards Update 2017-12, Derivatives and Hedging (Topic 815): Targeted Improvements to Accounting for Hedging Activities, modifies the accounting and reporting of foreign currency forward ...

This article reviews the implementation of real-time reporting by state and municipal governmental units as a model for analyzing these emerging technologies. While the implementation of real-time ...

Individuals who own interests in a closely held family business need to address an exit strategy. In many cases, such individuals wish to have a child who is involved in the business takeover its ...