Companies are Teaching Employees About Personal Finance To Boost Financial Literacy and Decrease Money Stress
Press Release:
Nine organizations across the nation have received the first award for excellence in workplace financial education, which recognizes them for setting the standard in programs that teach employees how to make...
Published on November 03, 2011
AICPA & Other Businesses Warn Congress Pension Problems Caused by Credit Crunch Need to be Addressed
Comment Letter:
Undersigned companies and organizations urge Congress to consider legislation to help companies navigate the current economic crisis while minimizing adverse impacts on the defined benefit pension plans they sponsor
Published on January 14, 2009
Coalition Urges Senate Judiciary Committee to Keep Tax Strategy Patent Provision in Patent Reform Act of 2011
Press Release:
A coalition of 15 national organizations urged the Senate Judiciary Committee to keep a provision in S. 23, The Patent Reform Act of 2011, that would stop tax strategy patents. The bill goes to mark...
Published on February 02, 2011
Consumer and Taxpayer Rights Groups Seek Ban on Tax Patents
Comment Letter:
A broad coalition of consumer organizations, taxpayer rights groups and financial planners is calling on Congress to ban people from obtaining patents on strategies for complying with U.S. tax law. With the coalition’s...
Published on March 09, 2010
Coalition Urges Congress to Ban Tax Strategy Patents - 9/28/2010
Legislative Letters:
Letter on behalf of eighteen national organizations representing consumer, taxpayer, charitable, financial planning, and tax advisor groups, urging congress to enact legislation to ban tax strategy patents
Published on September 29, 2010
Coalition Letter Consumer and Taxpayer Rights Groups Seek Ban on Tax Patents
Comment Letter:
A broad coalition of consumer organizations, taxpayer rights groups and financial planners is calling on Congress to ban people from obtaining patents on strategies for complying with U.S. tax law. With the coalition’s...
Published on March 09, 2010
AICPA to Host Webcast on SSAE No. 16 The Next Generation Planning for the New Service Organization Standards
Media Advisory:
The AICPA will host a special live webcast to help auditors understand the changes recently made to the audit and attest standards related to service organizations
Published on June 25, 2010
AICPA Publishes New Attest Guidance for Reporting on Controls at a Service Organization
Press Release:
As companies take advantage of new technologies, such as cloud computing, and increasingly outsource functions to service organizations, these companies are requesting information and assurance that will enable them to assess and address the risks associated with an outsourced service. The American Institute of CPAs has issued...
Published on June 29, 2011
AICPA Comment Letter on COSO Internal Control Integrated Framework Exposure Draft
Media Advisory:
The American Institute of CPAs Internal Control Task Force submitted comments on the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission’s (COSO) exposure draft, Internal Control – Integrated Framework (the updated Framework
Published on April 04, 2012
Greater Optimism on U.S. Economy Raises Outlook to Post-Recession High
Press Release:
Business executives are growing increasingly confident about prospects for the U.S. economy and their own organizations over the next 12 months, according to the first quarter AICPA Economic Outlook Survey, which polls chief financial officers, controllers and other certified public accountants in executive and senior...
Published on March 08, 2012
AICPA Publishes Guidance on Next Generation of SAS 70
Press Release:
Cloud computing providers and healthcare claims processors are among the information system service organizations who will benefit from new CPA reporting options developed by the AICPA
Published on February 01, 2011
AICPA Mobilizes CPAs to Help Victims of Earthquake in Haiti
Press Release:
The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants today urged all Americans who are financially able to contribute to organizations providing relief to Haiti
Published on March 10, 2010
Information Security Management Still Number One Concern
Press Release:
Information Security Management will be the most important initiative affecting IT strategy, investment and implementation in business organizations over the next 12-18 months, according to the AICPA's 19th Annual Top Technology Initiatives survey
Published on February 07, 2010
AICPA, U.S. PIRG Coalition Urges Congress to Ban Tax Strategy Patents Before Adjourning
Press Release:
Tax strategy patents threaten American taxpayers and Congress should ban them before it adjourns for the year, a coalition of 18 national consumer and taxpayer organizations said
Published on September 29, 2010
AICPA Recommends Changes to IRS Form 990 Used by Public Charities
Press Release:
The American Institute of CPAs submitted recommendations to the Internal Revenue Service on Aug. 16, 2012 about how to improve the form on which tax exempt organizations report required information annually
Published on August 21, 2012