Behind every big deal, filing and policy change is an accounting story. This hub covers the business news that matters to CPAs, read through an accountant’s eyes: what the numbers actually say and why the accounting treatment matters.
You’ll find analysis of mergers and acquisitions (including the wave of consolidation and private equity in accounting firms), IPO filings, the finances of AI companies, tax questions like whether AI subscriptions are taxable, tariff and court rulings, inflation and jobs data, and new standards such as ASU 2025-06 on internal-use software.
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- Is Your AI Subscription Taxable? Here’s How States Are Deciding
- What Forrester’s AI Consulting Rankings Actually Tell Accountants
- The Flip Era: Private Equity in Accounting Firms Has Entered a New Phase
- Accounting for AI: Breaking Down ASU 2025-06 and Internal Software Costs
All articles
- The AI Doomer Debate: Two Sides, One Antitrust Fight · Sep 15, 2026
- 3.4% and Still Stuck: How to Read the July CPI Print · Aug 13, 2026
- The Flip Era: Private Equity in Accounting Firms Has Entered a New Phase · Aug 11, 2026
- Weak Jobs, Sticky Inflation: What the July Report Means for the Fed · Aug 7, 2026
- The Pentagon’s $49M Bet on Agentic AI · Jun 16, 2026
- What Forrester’s AI Consulting Rankings Actually Tell Accountants · May 28, 2026
- SpaceX Just Filed for IPO — Here’s What the S-1 Actually Says · May 21, 2026
- The Consulting Wedge: What the Anthropic-Blackstone JV Actually Means for Accountants · May 7, 2026
- When a Shoe Company Becomes an AI Company: The Allbirds Shell Pivot, Explained · Apr 17, 2026
- AI IPO Valuation Risk: What the OpenAI & Anthropic Race Means for Finance Professionals · Apr 8, 2026
- Liberation Day at One Year: What Finance Leaders Learned · Apr 6, 2026
- Prediction Market Taxation: Gambling, Derivative, or Something New? · Mar 27, 2026
- Why OpenAI and Anthropic Are Courting Private Equity · Mar 24, 2026
- Same Track, Different Books: What F1 Teams Teach Us About Accounting Judgment · Mar 20, 2026
- Warner Bros. Discovery Acquisition Update: Paramount Skydance Wins the Bidding War (For Now) · Mar 3, 2026
- The Structural Rise of RPOs and Purchase Obligations (And Why Nvidia’s $95.2B Number Matters) · Mar 3, 2026
- Private Credit Is Finally Getting Stress-Tested: Fraud, AI Disruption, And The Blue Owl Redemption Gate · Mar 3, 2026
- Supreme Court Strikes Down IEEPA Tariffs: What CPAs Need to Know About the Ruling · Feb 20, 2026
- Analyzing Palantir’s Accounting: What Michael Burry Sees in the Data · Feb 19, 2026
- Amazon’s Layoffs: Why Tech Talent Was Treated Like Inventory (And The Tax Bill That Changed It) · Jan 29, 2026
- Capital One Buys Brex: A $5 Billion Lesson in Valuation and Strategy · Jan 26, 2026
- AI Booms, Busts, and the “YOLO Economy”: Are We Building the Next Railroad? · Jan 20, 2026
- The $1.5 Trillion Bill Comes Due: Navigating the 2026 CRE Maturity Wall · Jan 16, 2026
- U.S. Bancorp Acquires BTIG: A Signal for Bank M&A and ASC 805 · Jan 15, 2026
- The Cantillon Effect: Why Wages Decoupled From Productivity in 1971 · Jan 15, 2026
- The Battle for Warner Bros: Paramount’s Hostile Takeover vs. The Netflix Deal · Jan 13, 2026
- The 2025 Private Equity Paradox: Why Deals Are Up but Fundraising Is Down · Jan 8, 2026
- Accounting for AI: Breaking Down ASU 2025-06 and Internal Software Costs · Dec 19, 2025
- The 2026 Inflation Trap: Why the Fed Just Wrecked Your Forecast · Dec 18, 2025
- The New AI “One Rulebook”: Analyzing the December 11 Executive Order · Dec 15, 2025
- Regulators vs. Robots: Why the PCAOB is Sounding the Alarm on AI and Private Equity · Dec 11, 2025
- Breaking Down IBM’s $11 Billion Bet on Confluent · Dec 9, 2025
- The War for Warner Bros: What Happens When a Signed Deal Gets a Hostile Bid? · Dec 8, 2025
- The UNICAP Trap: Why the New AICPA Survey Has Controllers Worried · Dec 4, 2025
- Accounting Firm M&A in November 2025: The Deals, the Drivers, and ASC 805 · Dec 4, 2025
- Private Equity Bought My Industry. Here’s What Happened. · Nov 25, 2025
- is Becoming Uninsurable. Here’s Why That’s a Problem for Accountants. · Nov 24, 2025
- Behind the Headlines: Deconstructing J&J’s $3 Billion Biotech Bet · Nov 18, 2025
- The Accounting Reckoning for Buy Now, Pay Later · Nov 17, 2025
- The M&A Wave in Accounting: What’s Driving It? · Nov 7, 2025
- Breaking Down OpenAI’s $38 Billion Deal with Amazon · Nov 7, 2025
- Is Your AI Subscription Taxable? Here’s How States Are Deciding · Nov 7, 2025
- The AICPA Built an AI for Accountants. Here’s What I Found. · Nov 7, 2025
- I Dug Into America’s Scramble for Rare Earths. Here’s What I Found. · Nov 7, 2025