Grant Thornton says it is expanded its private capabilities with the hiring of two individuals to lead its Value Creation Planning services offering. The accounting firm has hired William McManus and Alex Arata to serve its private equity clients.

 Thomson Reuters has enhanced the integration between GoSystem Tax RS and SurePrep. The company said recently it has provided Live Sync Integration between the products.

Avalara is the latest in the flood of companies integrating ChatGPT with their software. The software company says it has a sales tax calculator plugin that accesses the generative AI tool.