Forbes: AAFCPAs Among America’s Best Tax And Accounting Firms
Forbes (12.2.21) – AAFCPAs (Westborough, Boston, Waltham, MA) is Among America’s Best Tax And Accounting Firms! Forbes partnered with market research company Statista to create a list of the most recommended firms for tax and accounting services in the U.S. based on surveys of tax and accounting professionals and their clients. Approximately 4,400 recommendations were […]
Boston Business Journal: AAFCPAs’ Managing Partner discusses diversity a decade ago, and today
Boston Business Journal (12.23.21) – It’s been a decade since Carla McCall started an initiative to help women reach leadership positions at the accounting firm AAFCPAs. McCall spoke to the Business Journal about her efforts at AAFCPAs and elsewhere to combat inequality, and to look ahead at a time when companies are generally still instituting […]
Cannabis Business Owners: Are you ready for an exit?
Consolidation is a defining aspect of the cannabis industry in its current stage. Mergers and acquisitions are mounting at a breakneck pace: Viridian’s Deal Tracker counts 265 North American transactions YTD in 2021, compared to 71 in the same period last year. Nearly 200 of those deals involved U.S. companies. It is not just the […]
Cybersecurity: Tools & Strategies to Protect Yourself and Your Family
October is cybersecurity awareness month in the United States. Breaches continue to affect various aspects of our increasingly connected world: from fortune 500 companies to large municipalities and public utilities. AAFCPAs urges clients to remain vigilant and to consider the following tools and strategies to protect yourself and your family: Access Your Credit Report The […]
Tax Planning Guides for Businesses & Individuals (2021-2022)
When considering your optimal tax planning & compliance strategy, business & individual tax payers must account for all current and impending tax code changes. This includes the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the 2019 Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, the 2020 Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) and subsequent stimulus initiatives, as […]
How CFOs Plan to Use Data
CFOs are ready for change when it comes to how they use data. An AAFCPAs survey of 200+ New England financial executives revealed they are seeking better ways to predict what is coming, in addition to the age-old practice of analyzing what has been. Their challenge lies in solving for people, process, and system limitations.
Treasury, IRS guidance on reporting qualified sick & family leave wages
AAFCPAs would like make clients aware that the Treasury Department and the IRS issued guidance to employers about reporting on Form W-2 the amount of qualified sick and family leave wages paid to employees for leave taken in 2021. The notice provides guidance under recent legislation, including: the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA), as […]
Carla McCall, MP Shares Insight on Creating a Roadmap for a Diverse, Equitable, Inclusive Firm
AAFCPAs Carla McCall, CPA, CGMA will serve on a managing partner panel on September 23rd, in collaboration with PrimeGlobal and Thomson Reuters, sharing her experiences and insight to help participants understand how to build their firm’s roadmap to a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiative. AAFCPAs began our DEI journey back in 2011 with the […]
Budgeting Add-Ons Create Efficiency and Ease
Today’s more robust Accounting and ERP Systems typically have budgeting functionality built into the platform. For many complex organizations, however, they may still not quite meet your current budgeting and reporting requirements. How do you know you need a budgeting add-on? While most systems will allow for the import of a completed budget and allow […]