cpa firm associations combine 250 firms with $1 billion in revenues.
left to right: jim holmes, international chairman of cpaai; michael parness, president of cpaai; clive viegas bennett, ceo of mgi worldwide, and roger isaacs, chairman of mgi worldwide, celebrating the merger agreement at mgi worldwide’s annual global meeting in dubai, uae.
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mgi worldwide, a global network of independent audit, tax, accounting, and advisory firms, headquartered in the u.k., and cpa associates international, headquartered in the u.s., have announced that they will merge, effective jan. 1, 2020.
bkr international is adding elias & asociados, san salvador, el salvador; gw carter, ltd., edina, minn.; and auditores externos varela & patiño cia. ltda., guayaquil, ecuador, to its roster of 160 firms with 500 offices in 80 nations. read more →
connects to oracle, sap, workday and other on-premise erp systems to accelerate closings.
via floqast floqast.com floqast, a provider of close-management software, is rolling out floqast connect 2.0 to provide organizations with frictionless connectivity between on-premise erp systems and cloud-based close management software.
“accounting teams that rely on floqast for their month-end close typically close three days faster than they did without us,” says mike whitmire, cpa, co-founder, and ceo of floqast.
“however, when general ledger data is locked away in on-premise erp systems, organizations are forced to find workarounds for getting to the data, that can erode the efficiencies gained using a solution like floqast. with connect 2.0, floqast is providing a secure, automated way to tap into on-premise data, ensuring accounting teams realize the full value of our close management platform.”
smallest firms plagued most by growing tax complexity.
via aicpa
staff recruitment remains the top issue for most cpa firms, while growing tax complexity and risk management regarding privacy and data security are rising challenges, new research by the aicpa shows.
“finding qualified staff” is the no. 1 issue for every firm-size segment except sole practitioners, according to the 2019 pcps cpa firm top issues survey, matching the topline results from the last survey two years ago.
new 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 soundings show concerns are building among both public and corporate accountants about the outlook for both the u.s. and global economies.
the fifth circuit court of appeals issued a decision on march 29, 2019, that explains some of the requirements for deducting litigation expenses.
the facts of the case are bizarre, but the controlling legal principles are not.
in a nutshell, the taxpayer was the sole shareholder of a company that was a commercial cleaning franchisor (“company”). in november 2002, the taxpayer traveled on vacation with his girlfriend and two employees of his company to the caribbean island of st. maarten, where he owned a home. one of the employees was a bodyguard and the other was a former girlfriend.
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the internal revenue service is struggling to continue operations as the nation heads into tax season during the “appropriations lapse,” a.k.a the government shutdown.
some 16,000 irs employees are exempt from the shutdown, and another 30,000 are being called in to work without pay—a total of 57.4 percent of the 80,265 employed before the shutdown.
nevertheless, with four desks out of ten empty, the irs is holding back on most services that require human involvement.
tax practitioners would do well to advise their clients of the following:
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