On May 8, 2025, the New York State Legislature passed A3009/S3009, the comprehensive New York State 2025-2026 Budget Act ...

The US Congress passed the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA, PL 119-21), making permanent or extending many of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA, PL 115-97) provisions that were set to expire ...

Corporate tax deductions for executive compensation are a contentious topic, governed as they have been by the tax code’s nebulous use of the term “reasonable” to limit the amount that may be deducted ...

Of the many kinds of technologies that professionals have encountered in recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) presents perhaps the greatest challenge. CPAs that do not become comfortable with AI ...

CPAs need to be aware of current developments in key states in order to properly advise their clients that engage in business in multiple jurisdictions. This article will provide an overview of the ...

Column Editor’s Note: In this issue, we return to neurodiversity in accounting, a topic I wrote about some while back, querying its intersection with race. It was a deeply personal account that ...

The CPA Journal is a publication of the New York State Society of CPAs, and is internationally recognized as an outstanding, technical-refereed publication for accounting practitioners, educators, and ...

The world of forensic accounting has been developing for the past 70 years. Some credit the beginning of the understanding of fraud as a subject of scientific study to the 1934 work of Donald Cressey ...

While many articles have discussed the declining pool of accounting graduates, relatively few have investigated whether this causes a disproportionate impact between the different fields of accounting ...

Any family business, however successful, will reach a day when ownership must change hands. A plan of succession for ownership of business interests ensures that the business will continue to operate ...

The rising popularity of artificial intelligence (AI) has made many CPAs feel unsure about the ways in which their profession may be affected. There are already some tedious tasks that AI can help ...

The well-documented shortage of qualified accounting professionals is a manifestation of several interrelated forces. One major factor is the aging workforce. Many experienced accountants are nearing ...