2+ week, 4+ day ago   (737+ words) An advisory firm owner told me something a few weeks ago that has been stuck in my mind ever since: "Kyle, most firms are aircraft carriers. They're too slow. We're more of a pirate ship." He was joking, mostly. It…...

10+ hour, 6+ min ago   (839+ words) Prediction markets that rode politics and sports to new heights the past two years are betting on their convergence this autumn to drive even more adoption. In 2024, event contract exchanges entered the mainstream with trades tied to the presidential election…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (187+ words) But they also demonstrate that while agents can certainly go awry, they can also be corrected and set back on the right path. We asked AI specialists throughout the accounting world to share their personal experiences when an AI agent…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (522+ words) Review practical tips for small firms and sole practitioners to right-size the building blocks of risk management: acceptance, billing, communication, documentation, and engagement letters — to help avoid disputes and malpractice claims....

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1104+ words) In our first article, we explored how AI-generated false information, also known as hallucinations, have increasingly been making their way into firm work products. Here we explore how some firms control specifically for this risk. Accountants tend to view hallucination…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (308+ words) Today, the Commission proposed to rescind Investment Advisers Act rule 206(4)-5, the investment adviser “Pay-to-Play Rule.” I am thrilled that we are proposing to eliminate rather than simply amend the rule, which always has bothered my First Amendment sensibilities.[1] Political speech…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (1253+ words) "If you go and read their terms, they're not exactly favorable. Some of the terms have been like that for several years," he said. While there is great variation between how vendors word their respective policies, however, there are certain…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (581+ words) Another big security hole, she said, is that while an LLM's reasoning packets can be encrypted, this encryption can also be broken by another LLM, and not even necessarily a more advanced one. For example, if someone has a big…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (213+ words) Thank you, George [Georgiev]. Good morning and welcome to the Committee members and today’s panelists. Thank you for your participation in the meeting. Thank you also to Marc Sharma, Adam Moore, Charles Kwon, and Adam Anicich for their tireless work…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1210+ words) Philadelphia: Daniel A. Pallen, 46, of Springfield, Pennsylvania, entered a plea of guilty to one count of tax evasion and one count of mail fraud, arising from his submission of over $400,000 in fictitious checks to evade payment of his federal taxes and…...