In the blogs: It's a gut punch Up in smoke; contingency planning; disaster strikes; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.
Building a QMS for a small firm It's not too late to build your accounting firm's quality management system, and it doesn't have to be overwhelming.
Generalist AI gets a C+ in accounting AI-focused accounting ERP provider DualEntry tested some of the most popular AI models on various accounting workflows and found that, at best, they're 77.3% accurate.
IIA recommends SOX update The Institute of Internal Auditors is calling on Congress to "modernize" the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 by adding provisions related to internal auditing.
EisnerAmper adds Price Reuben Price, Reuben, and Associates, an advisory firm based in Calabasas, California, will join the Top 25 Firm's restaurant advisory practice.
From pyramid to hourglass: The new architecture of the CPA firm AI is rewriting the org chart of the modern CPA firm.
Xero aims to make AI core to platform functionality While Xero has spent years adding AI features, this is the year it intends to spread the technology throughout the core of its product.
PCC shares annual report The report highlights the PCC's accomplishments and activities from the year, its agenda priorities, stakeholder engagement and strategy moving forward.
Mystery shoppers find widespread problems at tax preparers Undercover investigators found pervasive incompetence, fraud and significant errors among a sample group of non-credentialed tax preparers in half a dozen states.
Rhode Island, Louisiana introduce alternative pathways bills The bills would remove the 150 credit-hour requirement and replace it wth three new pathways.



