GASB provides guidance for Libor transition | When will you get your relief check? | Social Security recipients will automatically receive stimulus payments
With the window opening today for small businesses to apply for $349 billion in Paycheck Protection Program loans, the Small Business Administration has released an interim final rule providing additional guidance and requirements for the program. The final rule includes a number of changes, including doubling of loans' interest rate to 1% from 0.5%. PPP resources, including calculators, are available from the AICPA Private Companies Practice Section.
Thomson Reuters hears a common theme among accounting firms: You want a clear path forward. You need to guide your clients—giving the best tax and business advice, and secure data practices. How? Experts evaluate top concerns. Here's the next step. >
State and local governments have received guidance for reference-rate transition through a standard from the Governmental Accounting Standards Board. GASB Statement No. 93 addresses the transition away from Libor and other similar rates.
In a new special report, Thomson Reuters Checkpoint editors address the financial reporting and auditing impacts that the coronavirus may have on your firm and clients. Read the special report. >
The first relief checks for Americans that are part of the economic stimulus package won't arrive until at least the week of April 13, according to updated estimates. People who don't have direct deposit information on file with the Internal Revenue Service might have to wait months to receive checks.
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The Internal Revenue Service says Social Security and Railroad Retirement benefit recipients do not have to file a tax return to receive the $1,200 stimulus payment provided by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act. This reverses guidance that only people who filed a tax return in 2018 or 2019 automatically receive a payment.
CEO Barry Melancon, CPA, CGMA, shares what the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants is doing to help the profession, its practitioners and the clients and businesses they serve navigate the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
Leaders must respond appropriately when employees test positive for the coronavirus. When this happens, express sympathy and involve HR immediately, because it might have protocols to handle such an event.
Zoom, which has seen explosive growth in use of its videoconferencing service in recent weeks, will stop adding features for three months as it addresses privacy and security issues, CEO Eric Yuan has written in a blog post. Yuan has also promised to be more transparent regarding law enforcement data requests.
The coronavirus pandemic has unleashed a flood of tax, audit and other accounting-related questions. Webinars offer CPAs an efficient way to tackle topics affecting large numbers of clients, staffers and other stakeholders. This article offers advice on how to create and deliver a webinar.
The economy lost 701,000 jobs last month, and the unemployment rate climbed to 4.4%, according to the Labor Department, as companies struggled with the spread of the coronavirus. The numbers likely do not portray the full impact of the pandemic because they are based on a survey completed midmonth.
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