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Better Together: How to Support and Strengthen a Multigenerational Workforce
By embracing generational differences, CPA firms can create stronger teams and a more resilient profession prepared for the future.
Sharpen Your Critical Thinking to Boost Your Team’s Readiness
Talent readiness is a shared responsibility. Follow this framework to strengthen your critical-thinking skills and unlock your team’s full potential.
The Power of 3 Letters in a Changing Profession
Here’s why I’ll never remove the CPA designation from my name.
GEN NEXT: Onyenum Ruth Udoh
After choosing to look at AI through a different lens, this young professional encourages her peers to do the same—seeing the tool as a teammate, not a threat.
IN PLAY: Geralyn Hurd, CPA
Drawing from a decades-long public accounting career, this technology leader is committed to alleviating the profession’s challenges and fostering an innovative culture.
The Complex Reality of Illinois’ Income Tax
Illinois’ history of decoupling from federal tax legislation—combined with various credits, deductions, and additions—creates a complex system that erodes the state’s tax base.
Setting the Record Straight on S Corporations
Making the jump from limited liability corporation to S corporation isn’t the right strategy for every business. Here’s what CPAs should help their clients consider before making the switch.
A Better Way to Comply: Inside DOL’s New Self-Correction Program
New rules give employee benefit plan administrators a more efficient path to compliance.
How AI Is Changing the Way CPAs Build Business
Here’s how leading CPA firms and consultants are using AI to uncover business opportunities and maximize growth.
From Bias to Balance: Embedding Ethics Into the Performance Review Process
Ethical performance reviews build trust and strengthen workplace culture. Here’s how to put ethical practices into action.
5 Ways AI Will Transform Accounting and Finance
AI isn’t the end for accountants—it’s the beginning for those who are ready to embrace it.
The Smart CPA Firm: Building a Successful AI Ecosystem
As AI moves from possibility to business necessity, many accounting firms risk rushing in without thoughtful adoption and integration.
The Audit Committee's Expanding Role: What CPAs Need to Know
With audit committees being asked to take on more emerging risks, new research examines what these additional responsibilities and duties mean for effective governance and oversight.
What’s Next for SECURE 2.0 and Secure Choice?
Key provisions of the SECURE 2.0 Act will roll out throughout 2025 and 2026, bringing both opportunities and challenges to your clients.
The Business Case for Supporting Caregivers
An increasing number of employees are facing the heavy burden of caregiving at home. Here’s how employers can offer support—and prevent top talent from walking out the door.
Mother Nature: Accounting’s Next Most Effective Recruiting and Retention Tool?
Creating an environment that fosters happier, healthier, and more productive employees may be as simple as getting them outside and engaged in nature.
Cryptocurrency on the Balance Sheet: Opportunity or Gamble?
Clearer rules, stronger oversight, and new opportunities are helping corporate finance leaders evaluate whether digital assets fit into their financial strategies.
Transforming Your CAS Practice Into a Strategic Advisory Powerhouse
By moving beyond traditional bookkeeping and reporting, CAS professionals can gain a competitive edge and give clients what they truly need—strategic leadership.
Navigating the CPA Credential’s New Regulatory Frontier
As alternative practice structures grow and a new mobility framework emerges, questions around the use of the CPA credential are surfacing. Here’s what CPAs and CPA firms need to know.
Advocacy for Us Is Advocating for All
Professional associations have a duty to effectively represent the collective interests of their constituents and stakeholders. Are we living up to that duty?
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