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The bill, the Small Business Expenses Protection Act of 2020, S. 3612, is currently in the Senate Finance Committee and is supported by the AICPA.
The Association, the global voice of the American Institute of CPAs and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, is taking the Coronavirus (COVID-19) very seriously.
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The world has changed dramatically in recent months. At the beginning of 2020, many CPAs were excited about the prospect of an “easier” busy season after dealing with the law known as the Tax Cuts...
U.S. states are providing tax filing and payment due date relief for individuals and businesses. The AICPA has compiled the below latest developments on state tax filings related to coronavirus.
The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced special Federal income tax return filing and payment relief in response to the ongoing Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) emergency.
The IRS has established a special section focused on steps to help taxpayers, businesses and others affected by the coronavirus.
The Internal Revenue Service continued its mission to provide needed relief to the business community since the outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic in March, turning its gaze this week to the popular Opportunity Zone (OZ) program.
For years, my CPA firm has had the ability to work remotely, as I’m sure yours did. Never, though, did I consider a scenario where everyone would be working from home for weeks on end.
Today's technology allows that to happen in many cases with relative ease; however, are your employees prepared with the necessary knowledge to keep themselves and your network safe under these circumstances?
Fortunately, the technology exists to create a virtual workplace and many firms are using it, allowing employees to work from home, on the weekends, and during business trips.
The global spread of COVID-19 has contributed enormously to the sudden surge of businesses moving over to cloud-based bookkeeping software. It’s an industry that had been seeing robust growth...
Successful CPA firms place a premium on security and ongoing contact with clients. The remote practices, initially thought to be somewhat temporary, will most likely be permanent and will require ongoing education of employees and...
In the scramble to adjust to running an accounting firm during a pandemic, many firms invested in new technology to help them bridge the gap between a traditional in-office operation and a new virtual approach. And understandably so—it was an unforeseen challenge that caught most industries and businesses off-guard.
Success as a remote worker begins with developing a few simple rules that will allow you to be
engaged and intentional about your work and will create a positive experience.
As your accounting firm makes adjustments and settles into a new normal—at least for the next few weeks while COVID-19 remains a serious threat—it can be hard for firm leaders and managers to maintain the status quo.
Now that people have had the chance to figure out a way to run their businesses or do their jobs from home, leaders now have to answer a more difficult and abstract question: How can we work “together” when everyone is physically apart?..
Two of the primary concerns facing accountants and bookkeepers right now is how to keep employees accountable while they are working from home and how to make sure your clients’ – and your company’s – data stays safe.
The benefits of remote working have long been debated but it's evident that COVID-19 has accelerated the inevitable remote work revolution, with tech giant after tech giant making the trend a permanent fixture for their workforce.
These free tools can help your organization, team, and family during this confusing and dangerous time.
As CPAs and financial professionals, we are trained to be financially astute, but now in the age of coronavirus, we have to master being emotionally astute...
To reduce the impact of COVID-19 outbreak conditions on businesses, workers, customers, and the public, it is important for all employers to plan now for COVID-19.
As businesses continue to aver that “we have great cybersecurity tools and a great IT department,” cybercriminals continue to drain the global economy...
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During stressful times like these, it’s natural to feel like everything around you is broken. Everyone is out of sorts. The economy seems frozen. Your clients’ personal and business finances are in disarray...
However, all CPA firms, regardless of their telecommuting preparedness, now face new data and cybersecurity threats that have emerged due to more and more of the workforce operating online remotely.
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has caused companies across the world to temporarily close their doors in an effort to halt or slow down the spread of the novel coronavirus...
The recently enacted CARES Act, inclusive of the wildly popular Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), is the largest stimulus package since FDR's New Deal...
This ADP Coronavirus (COVID-19) Employer Preparedness Toolkit was designed to help you navigate the challenges you and your workforce are facing.
Pisano provides an amazing perspective because in addition to being a leadership guru, she also has a master’s degree in applied human psychology.
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If you think you or a family member have been exposed to COVID-19, evaluate symptoms with apple's in-home screening tool and understand your next steps.
For now, specific policies and procedures may be left up to each individual employer in alignment with general guidance provided by EEOC, OSHA and testing guidance from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the FDA.
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The Department of State advises U.S. citizens to avoid all international travel due to the global impact of COVID-19.
Which major airlines and hotel chains are waiving cancellation and change fees in light of COVID-19?
If you are like many accountants in these extraordinary times, your email and voicemail inboxes are filling up with questions from clients asking how they should be responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
Charles Darwin may not have lived through a pandemic, but he certainly knew a thing or two about adaptation. “It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive,” wrote Darwin, “but those who can best manage change.”
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This period of COVID-19 presents a unique challenge for accounting firms and their clients, many of whom are grappling with how to survive when most of the country is on lockdown and many businesses are at a full stop...
Here are a few actions you can take in your business development activity to reignite the fire now, and set yourself up for the inevitable changes to how you will do business as a long-term result of this pandemic.
A “new normal” is framing day-to-day life as those in professional services return to work. While some businesses have returned to limited operations as restrictions brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic lift, accounting firms and the CPAs working within them now face a significant learning curve settling into an evolved routine.
From a financial market perspective, the novel coronavirus pandemic has led to global economic uncertainty and volatility. With such widespread impact, the economic effects are disrupting day-to-day accounting procedures...
This is complicated stuff. There are federal, state, and local regulations to consider. The health and well-being of your employees is your top concern, obviously, but you also have to consider the health of your clients, your team's access to protective equipment, and your own legal liabilities.
The coronavirus pandemic continues to test the accounting profession in unprecedented ways and, for the most part, accountants are rising to these unique challenges — advising clients on how to keep their businesses afloat while focusing on the recovery of their own practices and people.
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