Daniel Hood

New York

Editor-in-Chief at Accounting Today

Host at Accounting Today Podcast

Daniel Hood is editor-in-chief of @AccountingToday

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Articles

A great time to cheat (but please don't)

2 weeks ago | accountingtoday.com | Daniel Hood

I didn't want to say this before tax season ended, but my guess is this has to be the best time in all the history of the income tax and the Internal Revenue Service to cheat on your taxes. (Not that anyone should cheat, of course.
Let a non-CPA do it!

2 weeks ago | accountingtoday.com | Daniel Hood

With accounting talent so hard to find, Wiss managing partner and CEO Paul Peterson shares how his firm has cultivated non-accountants and non-CPAs to fill the gap. Transcription: Transcripts are generated using a combination of speech recognition software and human transcribers, and may contain errors. Please check the corresponding audio for the authoritative record. Dan Hood (00:03):Welcome to On the Air with Accounting Today. I'm editor-in-chief Dan Hood.
Senate Dems probe IRS chief nominee Billy Long's campaign donations

2 weeks ago | accountingtoday.com | Daniel Hood

The week before confirmation hearings for President Donald Trump's nominee for commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, former Missouri Congressman Billy Long, Democrats in the Senate are asking questions about the timing of campaign donations he received immediately after his nomination.
Grant Thornton US to add GT Netherlands to platform

3 weeks ago | accountingtoday.com | Daniel Hood

The U.S. firm of Grant Thornton is adding Grant Thornton Netherlands to the multinational platform it launched earlier this year, in a deal that is expected to close later this year. In January Grant Thornton Advisors combined with Grant Thornton Ireland, in its first step to create an integrated international firm. In late April it announced agreements with GT firms in Luxembourg, the United Arab Emirates and the Cayman Islands.
Armanino expands into Utah

3 weeks ago | accountingtoday.com | Daniel Hood

Top 25 Firm Armanino has entered the Utah market for the first time by adding in Cooper Savas LLC, a CPA firm based in Salt Lake City. The merger is the second since Armanino took on a minority investment from a private equity firm last fall, in part to gain access to capital to fuel its aggressive M&A strategy, which has seen the firm finalize 20 combinations since 2019.
Getting the most out of your tech

3 weeks ago | accountingtoday.com | Daniel Hood

Consultant and technology thought leader Seth Fineberg offers a guide to finding, choosing, implementing and assessing the software your firm needs. Transcription: Transcripts are generated using a combination of speech recognition software and human transcribers, and may contain errors. Please check the corresponding audio for the authoritative record. Dan Hood (00:03):Welcome to On the Air With Accounting. Today, I'm editor-in-chief Dan Hood.
The rules are changing for accounting firm M&A

1 month ago | accountingtoday.com | Daniel Hood

If you don't like the merger & acquisition landscape in accounting, wait a little while — it will change. "It's constantly changing, constantly evolving," Doug Lewis, a managing director at M&A advisors The Visionary Group, told attendees of a session at the BDO Alliance's 2025 Evolve Conference, held in Las Vegas this week.
Accounting firms need to transform in the face of AI

1 month ago | accountingtoday.com | Daniel Hood

Artificial intelligence isn't here to take accounting jobs — but it can already do big chunks of them, and accountants can't afford to be complacent in the face of that, according to AI expert Radhika Dirks. With AI increasingly capable of performing many of the basic tasks of compliance work like tax, accounting and other core offerings of the profession, accountants need to evolve, she told attendees at the BDO Evolve 2025 Conference, held this week in Las Vegas.
Accounting firms' challenge: Making it out of the canyon

1 month ago | accountingtoday.com | Daniel Hood

Accounting is in the midst of a massive transformation that may leave some firms behind if they don't keep up, industry leaders told attendees at a major event on Monday.
The 2025 Best Accounting Firms for Technology

1 month ago | accountingtoday.com | Chris Gaetano |Daniel Hood |Danielle Lee

The initial response to artificial intelligence from the accounting community was one of wonder and amazement and, for a while, it seemed like every firm from the smallest storefront to the largest network was eager to demonstrate its embrace of the technology. But today, as more firms become familiar with AI — especially its generative and agentic variants — firms are focusing less on blanket adoption and more on governance, recognizing both its powerful potential and its very real limitations.