This summer marks the 114th anniversary of the WSCPA and the 6th year on the Board of Directors for Amanda O'Rourke who said, "It is an honor to serve our profession and to help position us for the next 100+ years."

In September 2017, Deloitte was the target of a cyberattack that accessed data from a cloud-based email platform. Because of the company’s information security strategy—a cohesive program of services and tools to protect its data and reduce the risk of data loss —only a very few clients were impacted and there was no disruption to Deloitte’s ability to continue business operations.

Looking for an excuse to take a break? Why not take a few minutes to try to solve the latest WashingtonCPA crossword puzzle? Here’s the puzzle and the solution for your puzzling pleasure.

This past May, at the conclusion of the AICPA’s Spring Meeting of Council, several hundred CPAs from across the nation met with Members of Congress to ask them to support consolidating existing IRS units into a Practitioner Services Division so that taxpayer issues are more efficiently resolved.

America’s cannabis industry continues to grow: The U.S. legal cannabis market was worth an estimated $10.4 billion in 2018 and is projected to grow to about $26 billion by 2025. This projected growth has more and more CPA firms weighing the business opportunities and risks related to expanding their practice into this emerging industry.