Resource Guide - Issue 176
- Achieving a Paperless Office In 2005
- Business Process Mgt. Can Solve Compliance Issues, Reduce Costs
- Four Out of Five Financial Firms Now Have a Chief Risk Officer
- Report Highlights Problems, Solutions to the Complex Tax Code
- EEOC Brings Suit that Could Affect Partnership Age Limits
- New McAfee Tool Helps Companies Spot Their Leaks
- COSO to Help Small Businesses with Internal Controls
- Treasury, IRS Announce Clarifications to Handling Subcontractors
- Just for Fun: An Open Letter to My Current and Future Tax Clients
- Audit Avoidance 101: Warding off a Visit from the IRS
- Treasury, IRS Announce Guidance on Repatriation of Foreign Earnings
- Disclosures of Control Weaknesses Way Up in 2004
- Is it time For You to Consider Self-Employment?
- Seven Guidelines for Creating an Ideal New Year!
- Don't Feel Trapped in Your Job
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While the technology to go paperless does exist, word on the street indicates that many accounting firms and organizations that want to go paperless end up with less paper than before, but still not a completely paperless environment. With advanced technologies at our fingertips and a more-informed profession ready to take the plunge, many firms have gone paperless with great success.
BearingPoint, Inc. recently issued a white paper, "Business Process Management in the Capital Markets," which details the way financial services organizations can improve profit margins and reduce cost by digitizing content. Find out more about this whitepaper now.
Global financial services institutions are facing growing exposure to risk from a variety of factors, including mega- mergers, off-shoring, outsourcing, greater regulation, and the need to manage an increased volume of lending. These factors are causing a very large proportion of these institutions -- 81 per cent -- to establish the position of Chief Risk Officer (CRO).
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In this years' Annual Report to Congress, National Taxpayer Advocate, Nina E. Olson states that "without a doubt, the largest source of compliance burdens for taxpayers and the IRS alike is the overwhelming complexity of the tax code, and without a doubt, the only meaningful way to reduce these compliance burdens is to simplify the tax code enormously".
A suit filed last week by federal civil-rights lawyers could change the way aging partners are treated in CPA firms and other private practices that attempt to drive out older partners.
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- New McAfee Tool Helps Companies Spot Their Leaks
- COSO to Help Small Businesses with Internal Controls
- Treasury, IRS Announce Clarifications to Handling Subcontractors
- Just for Fun: An Open Letter to My Current and Future Tax Clients
- Audit Avoidance 101: Warding off a Visit from the IRS
- Treasury, IRS Announce Guidance on Repatriation of Foreign Earnings
- Disclosures of Control Weaknesses Way Up in 2004
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- Beware of Altered IRS Forms Used for Identity Theft
- Revised Schedules K-1 to Reduce Filing Complexity
- New Tax Law Encourages Tsunami Relief Contributions
- IRS Eases Interest Suspension Rule for Amended Returns
- Supreme Court to Hear Appeal of Andersen Conviction
- M&A Advisor Names Crowe Chizek Top Accounting Advisory Firm
- Report: Large Federal Contractors Miscoded As Small Businesses
- New Online "Drop-off" Service Offer by H&R Block
- H&R Block Announces Business Unit President, CEO's Departure
- Intuit Delivers Three Big Breakthroughs for Online Tax Filers
- Best Software and Nextel Help Accountants Go Wireless
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Indiana: Indianapolis based accounting and consulting firm Crowe Chizek and Company LLC has finalized it's combination of practices with Illinois based PTW. The two firms will operate under the Crowe name.
Kentucky: Reported by the American City Business Journals Inc. Louisville CPA firms Cecil & George PSC and Kosse & Lindle PLC recently merged, creating the firm Lindle, Cecil, George & Eversole PLLC.
Minnesota: Bruder, Glubka & Associates and William Hall & Associates merged in late 2004 to form the new firm of Russell & Associates.
Mississippi: Crain & Company joined Horne LLP on January 1, 2005.
New York: The Central New York Business Journal reported that Grimaldi & Associates and Nelkin, Griesel & Graves combined practices on January 1 of this year to form the new firm of Grimaldi & Nelkin Certified Public Accountants, PLLC.
New York: Dorfman-Robbie CPAs P.C. absorbed Mirochnik McGrath & Poppel LLP on January 5 of this year. According to The Business Review (Albany), the future growth of the firm will be to focus on services to construction firms and on the nonprofit sector.
Pennsylvania: Reinsel & Company LLP, and Kuntz Lesher LLP, combined practices as of January 1, 2005. The new firm will have the name Reinsel Kuntz Lesher LLP.
International: According to the China Daily, Deloitte plans to merge with top-quality Chinese accounting firms this year to further localize itself and strengthen its position in the Chinese market. If the mergers are finalized, it would be a first for Deloitte in the Chinese mainland.
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