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Advertisement DECEMBER 11, 2015 SIGN UP | FORWARD | ARCHIVE | ADVERTISE Brought to you by the American Institute of CPAs   Top Story Advertisement Household net worth fell by nearly $1.2T in Q3 Household net worth in the US […]

For the 11th consecutive quarter, regulatory requirements and changes top the list of challenges cited by CPA decision-makers in business and industry. CFOs and controllers sometimes hire consultants or ask staff to take on extra work to make sure they’re […]

Economists are predicting 2.6% growth in 2016, according to the National Association for Business Economics. That’s down a little from a survey in September, when economists anticipated growth of 2.7%. However, the economists still expect the unemployment rate to fall […]

Negotiators from the Senate and House of Representatives have come to terms on a five-year transportation bill that would also reopen the Export-Import Bank. The bill, which will come to a vote this week, would be financed in part by […]

College graduates’ underemployment rate has fallen to 6.2%, down from a peak of 10.2% during the recession, according to an analysis by Georgetown University’s Center for Education and the Workforce. The underemployment rate for high-school graduates is 12.9%.

As more people enter their golden years, they become increasingly susceptible to financial fraud and financial elder abuse, especially if their mental faculties start to decline.

The US economy expanded at an annual rate of 2.1% in the third quarter, significantly greater than the Commerce Department’s previous estimate of 1.5%. The biggest factor in the change was revised data showing that merchants were building inventory faster […]

Janet Yellen, chair of the Federal Reserve, has defended the central bank’s actions to hold interest rates close to zero for seven years in a letter to a group led by consumer advocate Ralph Nader. Yellen says higher rates would […]

Given low natural interest rates around the world, central banks may need to consider ideas such as keeping big balance sheets, said John Williams, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. “You could think about keeping a permanently […]