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Successful AI integration comes from small, targeted moves—not the hype of sweeping transformations.

Is accounting academia still an attractive career path for CPAs? Although demand for accounting Ph.D. graduates has declined despite earlier predictions of faculty shortages, accounting professors continue to enjoy strong compensation, work/life balance, tenure stability and summer flexibility.

When a firm's AI tool hits its usage cap mid-deadline, staff often turn to free consumer tools. Here is how to protect client data first.

A former IRS commissioner assesses risks and proposes control practices for use of artificial intelligence by taxing authorities and practitioners.

Remote work erodes the personal bonds that boost collaboration at the office, according to research from Wharton’s Peter Cappelli. He offers guidance on making the most of hybrid schedules.

As AI reshapes entry-level work, organizations should rethink how expertise is developed by integrating knowledge management, role design, learning, and coaching into a single system.

When people think about what makes a great accountant, they usually focus on technical expertise. Yet there is another skill that often determines whether accountants become trusted advisers, successful managers, respected partners, or influential leaders: listening.

Organizations worldwide are made stronger when their teams represent different experiences and perspectives. This diversity of thought is supported by corporate governance, accountability, ethics, and trust, research suggests.

AI can be used to systematically engineer financial statement fraud and evade detection. For external and internal auditors, the implication is clear: the next generation of fraud will not look like the last, and you’d better have your programs optimized to detect it.

Discover the techniques and tools that finance professionals can use to improve public speaking and presentation skills to advance their careers.

Starting your own firm isn’t just about being a strong accountant. To make it in today’s changing landscape, four CPA firm owners say it requires patience, community, boundaries, and hustle.

Artificial intelligence (AI) in hiring is increasing, but as more candidates encounter those tools, more are opting out of the process and losing trust in employers.

CPA candidates should review this highly-important resource that contains valuable information to aid in Exam studies.

This article explains how CPAs can assess and disclose material environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks that may affect a company’s financial position, operations and stakeholders.

Learn how CPAs felt about their tax software over the past year in this annual survey from the Journal of Accountancy and The Tax Adviser.

Virginia businesses must report unclaimed property each year by the deadline or face penalties or fees.

Accountants already have many of the skills necessary to use AI responsibly. We know how to question information, trace a number back to its source, and ask for support. The same habits should apply to AI.

The federal government has a long-term fiscal imbalance, but the hard question surrounding Social Security is how the adjustment should be divided among spending restraint, entitlement reform, additional revenue, economic growth and future generations — and how soon policymakers are willing to act.

CPA firms sometimes believe M&A success comes when the deal closes. In reality, closing is only the beginning. The true measure of a successful transaction is what happens afterward — and much of that depends on people.

The more embedded someone is at their job, the more they stand to lose by leaving, and the more reasons they have to stay. Leaders in accounting firms and finance departments who understand this open up a far richer retention toolkit than compensation alone.