CPA Now Blog Archive

The PICPA Women’s Leadership Conference is charged with positive energy and support. There’s a type of “sisterhood” that you get when the speakers place an emphasis on how current issues uniquely affect women. Attendance is a gift ... a Mother's Day gift, in fact.

Do you remember how some folks were saying the 2017 tax season was going to be the smoothest in recent memory? That's not really how things played out, is it? Find out what Ryan Raffensperger learned from his firm's work this year.

A recent Pennsylvania Private Letter Ruling included a concerning portion. It appeared that taxable support activity was being construed to involve any service involving tangible personal property, which in practical terms would now tax any computer support service.

If you've been too busy this spring to visit PICPA's website, we invite you to review some of our most popular Web pages from January through April. Come see what your fellow members have been checking out.

Since enactment of the Dodd-Frank Act in July 2010, the law has dominated discussions at community banking forums and board meetings. Has all the fuss really been warranted? Has Dodd-Frank really been that detrimental to small community banks?

More than 3,600 candidates took at least one section of the CPA Exam in Pennsylvania in 2016. That was a five-year high! Find out more about overall exam results last year.

Having a difficult conversation ranks among the top fears for CPAs and other professionals. People want to ignore, or put off, the things they fear the most, but that is something CPAs cannot do.

There are many stories about people who raise money through crowd funding sites and wake up one day to find a big tax bill in the mail. So when is, and when isn't, crowd funding considered taxable income?

The Pennsylvania CPA Journal’s first-ever digital-only edition has been released. This extra fifth issue of the journal builds upon PICPA’s desire to give you the technical and career-based information you need to succeed.

By not managing your money, you are avoiding financial security. April is Financial Literacy Month, and the PICPA wants managing money to be a task that you don’t avoid.

When a criminal gains access to a computer system, encrypts all the electronic files, makes them unusable, and then demands payment, that criminal likely used ransomware on your system. The FBI discourages submission, and your insurance may not cover a ransomware payment.

CPAs who are looking for podcasts to stay current on professional and technical trends can turn to PICPA's CPA Conversations. If you haven't tried podcasts, you are missing out on a favorite information option that is growing and growing.

Earlier this year, a diverse group of individuals and organizations, including the PICPA, created a new civil-justice-focused advocacy organization: The Pennsylvania Coalition for Civil Justice Reform.

PICPA's new Pennsylvania CPA Foundation has been launched to inspire students to pursue careers in accounting and to provide educational, motivational, and financial support to those working to attain the CPA credential.

When it comes to taxes, there are many different types of filers: early starters, procrastinators, among others. Regardless of which one you might be, members of the Pennsylvania Institute of CPAs have identified tax issues and resources that can help you.

Often, entrepreneurs rely on personal savings to start their new business; sometimes they may not have enough available. A trip to the bank to secure financing may be needed. Banks will require a loan to be secured by business assets, including owned office equipment and machinery. In addition, they may require a personal guarantee of repayment.

The appropriations committees of the Pennsylvania House and Senate hold state budget hearings to provide lawmakers and the public with some sense of how taxpayer dollars will be spent. After three long weeks of hearings that concluded last week, what did we learn about Gov. Tom Wolf’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2017?

Find out how cash flow practices and can lead to more favorable outcomes and better management for your business.

The PICPA has a lot to offer our corporate finance members. Here are the top five issues members in corporate finance tell us about, and some of the resources the PICPA offers to help.

President Barack Obama's rules and requirements for retirement advisers to put the best interests of their clients above their own financial interests are scheduled to be phased in completely by Jan. 1, 2018. But President Donald Trump signed an executive order to revisit the fiduciary standard. This has resulted in uncertainty for advisers.