Michael Cohn, editor-in-chief of AccountingToday.com, has been covering business and technology for a variety of publications since 1985. Prior to joining Accounting Today and WebCPA, he worked for Red Herring, Internet World, Beyond Computing, Accounting Technology and PC Magazine, and freelanced for a variety of other business publications. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in English, he studied accounting at the Wharton School of Business, and currently lives in New York City.
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The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and the Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada signed a memorandum of understanding.
August 4 -
The service released information on how taxpayers can claim the energy efficient home improvement credit.
August 4 -
The unemployment rate dipped one-tenth of a point to 3.5%, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported.
August 4 -
The service is trying to fully staff its in-person TACs around the country, but first it has to make them easier to locate.
August 3 -
The service isn't doing enough to safeguard sensitive information when it's shipped between tax processing centers, according to a new report.
August 3 -
The Treasury wants to curb the use of some types of transactions by listing them as potentially abusive tax dodges.
August 3 -
The Internal Revenue Service hopes to process all of the tax correspondence, notice responses and nontax forms it receives digitally in the next two years.
August 2 -
The Center for Audit Quality is working to convince the board to water down a proposed update telling auditors to be on the lookout for fraud and other signs of noncompliance.
August 2 -
The International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board proposed new rules for providing outside assurance on a company's sustainability reporting efforts.
August 2 -
CPA firms are resorting to strategies like hiring workers abroad, raising starting salaries, offering fully remote jobs, and hiring staff who haven't graduated college.
August 2 -
Annual pay grew 6.2% year over year, according to payroll processor ADP, which separately added generative AI features to its software.
August 2 -
Economic confidence among accountants in North America grew in the second quarter, but declined in other parts of the world.
August 1 -
Earnings growth for small business employees fell below 4% for the first time in more than two years, according to Paychex.
August 1 -
CLA acquires Frost; UHY combines with Bigelow; Withum adds TMDG and PBMares practices; RKL eSolutions buys CPA Technology; and Anglin Reichmann Armstrong merges in Adamson.
August 1 -
The board proposed an ASU Monday to give investors more information about a company's expenses.
July 31 -
The European Commission adopted the European Sustainability Reporting Standards on Monday; they will take effect in 2024.
July 31 -
Basis Climate introduced a digital exchange where companies can buy and sell renewable energy tax credits like the kind offered under the Inflation Reduction Act.
July 31 -
The board disciplined five auditing firms for violating its rules and standards when communicating with audit committees.
July 28 -
Tax experts testified during a hearing about the Employee Retention Credit and the issues they and their clients are facing.
July 28 -
The board is proposing to create an XBRL version of its recently released ESG standards.
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