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The IRS today warned tax professionals to increase their computer security and to beware of their inbox – specifically the successful email scams dubbed spear phishing that identify themselves as a friend, customer or company. Increasingly, tax professionals are being targeted by identity thieves. These criminals – many of them sophisticated, organized syndicates - are redoubling [...]
A PTIN is an identifying number - like a Social Security number - for tax preparers and certain other tax professionals. Since 1999, tax return preparers have been able to use a PTIN on tax returns instead of their Social Security Numbers; they used to be issued for free. The IRS began charging a fee for [...]
The American Institute of CPAs and its technology-focused subsidiary CPA.com are jointly sponsoring an accelerator for companies that have potential to have significant impact on the accounting profession. The initiative was announced at the 2017 AICPA Engage conference by Barry Melancon, president and CEO of the American Institute of CPAs. The aim of the initiative [...]
Auditors are increasingly taking responsibility for fraud detection and cybersecurity at companies, whether they like it or not. “The bottom line is that if there’s fraud and the auditor did not discover the fraud, there’s a 99 percent chance that the auditor will be sued,” said Ralph Summerford, president of Forensic Strategic Solutions, a financial investigation [...]
