Category: AICPA News

Commissioner Danny Werfel describes an IRS that focuses on the wealthy and uses artificial intelligence to find discrepancies in large partnership filings.

The board voted to issue a standard that defines the financial reporting requirements for certain crypto holdings and how the value of those assets should be measured.

The Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board is seeking feedback on an exposure draft aimed at updating the guidance for management discussion and analysis (MD&A).

As one of the nation’s largest CPA firms announces the formation of an employee stock ownership plan, the managing partner at a midsize firm entering its third decade as an ESOP shares some perspective.

FASB issued a new chapter of its Conceptual Framework related to the recognition and derecognition of criteria and guidance on when an item should be incorporated into and removed from financial statements.

The exposure draft of the Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements aims to align quality management standards with standards for audits, reviews, and compilations.

The IRS issued guidance on the treatment of refunds of state or local taxes and certain other payments made by states made to individuals in 2023 and future years, including spillover payments made in 2023 under 2022 programs covered by IRS News Release IR-2023-23.

The new e-filing requirement, beginning in 2024, applies to businesses mandated to e-file certain other information returns, such as Forms 1099 series and Forms W-2.

An expert discusses the requirements to perform a root cause analysis as part of monitoring and remediation.

Finance executives in business and industry still have concerns, but optimism is on the rise and expectations of business contraction are far lower, according to the quarterly Business and Industry Economic Outlook Survey.