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7 pieces of advice for CFOs from former PCAOB Chair Erica Williams

September 17, 2025

While talking on topics like AI risk and auditor accountability, she said CFOs must double down on compliance while promoting a culture that encourages whistleblowing.

  • business and industry

Skilled for success? Accounting newcomers say yes, managers say no

September 10, 2025

Regarding the skills needed to succeed in accounting and finance roles, less-experienced employees and their managers aren’t on the same spreadsheet.

  • business and industry
  • career resources
  • practice management

IRS assesses $162 million in penalties over false tax credit claims tied to social media

September 08, 2025

The Internal Revenue Service is alerting taxpayers about a growing number of fraudulent tax schemes circulating on social media that promote the misuse of credits such as the Fuel Tax Credit and the Sick and Family Leave Credit. These scams have led thousands of taxpayers to file inaccurate or frivolous returns, often resulting in the denial of refunds and steep penalties.

  • business and industry
  • practice management
  • federal tax

CFOs must balance boomers’ demand for flexibility with millennial and Gen Z’s AI use

September 03, 2025

Flexibility is driving loyalty for older workers as younger peers adopt AI, a shift CFOs must navigate across pay, policy and technology.

  • business and industry
  • career resources
  • practice management

Governor Lamont Announces Connecticut’s Minimum Wage Will Increase to $16.94 on January 1, 2026

September 03, 2025

Governor Ned Lamont today announced that beginning on January 1, 2026, Connecticut’s minimum wage will increase from the current rate of $16.35 per hour to $16.94 per hour.

  • business and industry
  • practice management
  • advocacy - state

Employees take AI usage into their own hands

September 02, 2025

Most workers are using tools not provided by their employers, and few see any type of internal oversight.

  • business and industry
  • technology and cybersecurity

Treasury leaks jobs qualifying for no taxes on tips

September 02, 2025

The Treasury Department's list of 68 jobs that are eligible for tax exemptions on tips has leaked to the media and includes occupations ranging from bartenders and food servers to entertainers, performers and digital content creators.

  • business and industry
  • federal tax

Draft 2026 Form W-2 includes boxes and codes for tips and overtime

August 28, 2025

A draft version of Form W-2, Wage and Tax Statement, for 2026 includes boxes and codes for reporting qualified tips and qualified overtime compensation that can be deducted temporarily under the provisions of H.R. 1, P.L. 119-21, commonly known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

  • business and industry
  • practice management
  • federal tax

Out of office: Employers’ push for more office time meets resistance

August 27, 2025

While a flexible work schedule continues to be the norm, companies across the board have been requiring more days in the office with each passing month.

  • business and industry
  • career resources
  • practice management

Are outsourcing and AI fast-tracking the CPA pipeline shrink?: Trial Balance

August 25, 2025

PwC’s campus hiring cuts show how technology is reshaping accounting and raises new questions about the profession’s future.

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  • career resources
  • practice management
  • pipeline

1 in 10 corporate finance and accounting execs report ‘significant’ talent shortages

August 20, 2025

A new survey by the nonprofit Controllers Council aims to quantify talent concerns in corporate F&A.

  • business and industry

Could AI be your next boss?

August 19, 2025

Finance professionals expect to scale agentic AI within the next three years, but few employees in a new global survey are open to being managed by AI agents.

  • business and industry
  • technology and cybersecurity

Shadow AI emerges as significant cybersecurity threat

August 15, 2025

Security incidents involving shadow AI accounted for 20% of data breaches globally and were more expensive for companies to resolve.

  • business and industry
  • practice management
  • technology and cybersecurity

Return-to-office — but not for everybody

August 14, 2025

Employers enforcing return-to-office mandates could lose talent and are less likely to retain top performers.

  • business and industry
  • career resources
  • practice management

New tax law prompts payroll questions

August 08, 2025

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act is sparking questions from employees and payroll departments about how to handle the various tax breaks, including on overtime pay.

  • business and industry
  • practice management
  • federal tax

Accounting automation’s intelligent future

August 01, 2025

Unlike robotic process automation, intelligent process automation has advanced AI that can assist with judgments previously only CPAs could handle.

  • business and industry
  • technology and cybersecurity

25% of workers ‘very likely’ to seek a new job

July 31, 2025

It’s still an employers’ job market for now, but more employees may be getting restless in their roles, data suggests.

  • business and industry
  • career resources
  • practice management

Shorter workweek benefits extend beyond burnout recovery

July 24, 2025

Employees with shorter workweeks are more likely to experience positive health changes and better work fulfilment, and those improvements can provide workforces with job resources to accelerate professional and personal growth.

  • business and industry
  • career resources
  • practice management

FinCEN says it will postpone effective date of anti-money-laundering rule

July 21, 2025

Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) said Monday that it plans to postpone the effective date of a rule bringing certain investment advisers within the standards of its anti-money-laundering and countering-the-financing-of-terrorism (AML/CFT) programs as it revisits the rule.

  • accounting and auditing
  • business and industry
  • federal tax
  • boi

Overworked or overwhelmed? The two sides of technology

July 16, 2025

Productivity is lacking in the workplace, according to a Microsoft survey, with technology posing both as the problem and the solution.

  • business and industry
  • practice management
  • technology and cybersecurity