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CPAs employ a range of carrot-and-stick tactics to get clients to hand in their tax paperwork well ahead of April 15. These include providing discounts for early filers, increasing fees for those who drag their feet and explaining the penalties […]

Rule-making for the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act might be finished this year, Securities and Exchange Commission chief Mary Jo White told the House Financial Services Committee. Writing rules that are workable and also carry out statutory requirements is turning […]

Although breaches at large companies such as Home Depot and Target make the headlines, small organizations also are at risk of cyberattacks because fraudsters may believe their controls are not as strong. Here’s how companies with limited IT resources can […]

Financial professionals said they prefer solving problems over working with numbers. Find out where making strategic recommendations and learning new technologies fall on the list, which comes from a survey of 2,600 accounting and finance professionals.

Indications that the U.S. Federal Reserve will move to raise interest rates, even as other major central banks continue loose monetary policies, has fueled volatility in the foreign exchange market. Currency markets had a period of relative calm when central […]

The Federal Reserve signaled an increased likelihood of raising interest rates but said it has a less optimistic view of where the U.S. economy is headed. The policy committee said economic expansion has slowed due to a sluggish housing market […]

Analysts have revised the blended consensus growth outlook for Standard & Poor’s 500 companies in light of declining energy prices, a strong dollar and shaky foreign markets, according to data by FactSet Research Systems. They now predict that first-quarter earnings […]

The price of West Texas Intermediate crude, the main benchmark for U.S. oil supplies, fell to about $44 a barrel Monday, its lowest price in six years. The decline of U.S. and global oil prices continued as OPEC made public […]

The U.S. debt limit, which had been suspended since 2014, will be reinstated today. The Treasury Department will use “extraordinary measures” to make payments on the debt, but it’s estimated the cap will need to be raised sometime in the […]