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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An accountant working at a Georgia-based wealth management firm pleaded guilty to embezzling $800,000 from an elderly client suffering from dementia.
February 15 -
Billtrust, a provider of accounts receivable software based in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, has acquired Order2Cash, an electronic invoicing and payments company headquartered in Amsterdam.
February 15 -
The Internal Revenue Service updated its frequently asked questions page on higher education emergency grants for pandemic-related financial aid, with new information for students and educational institutions.
February 15 -
The service has overhauled Form 14457 as it cracks down on the use of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin to evade taxes.
February 15 -
The Top 30 Firm is expanding its local, state and federal government client base, effective March 31.
February 15 -
The Top 20 firm has added two data analytics and application development companies, Solve100 and Waypoint Consulting, while expanding its footprint to Arkansas.
February 14 -
The page aims to provide the latest about the current tax season, and the agency’s efforts to deal with the backlog of millions of previously filed returns.
February 14 -
PKF O’Connor Davies is acquiring Simon, Tapper, Edelman & Wilner; and Ryan LLC is buying MacRostie Historic Advisors.
February 11 -
Kelly Richmond Pope, a documentary filmmaker and accounting professor at DePaul University in Chicago, wants to transform the way accounting is taught.
February 11 -
A group led by Sen. Mike Crapo is asking the IRS to do all it can to help taxpayers this tax season.
February 10 -
The Cleveland-based Top 10 Firm has appointed Andrew Gragnani as its new president, succeeding Andy Burczyk, who is retiring.
February 10 -
Congress is asking questions about the high salaries paid to college football coaches at some top schools that receive tax exemptions from the Internal Revenue Service.
February 10 -
The Internal Revenue Service is pointing to some of the successes with pro bono clinics that represented nearly 20,000 taxpayers in 2020 who faced a tax dispute with the agency, despite the pandemic.
February 10 -
The agency is halting automated collection notices, balance due notices and unfiled tax return notices, after coming under pressure from lawmakers and tax professionals to first catch up on its backlog.
February 9 -
The Internal Revenue Service issued new guidance for taxpayers and tax practitioners submitting claims for refunds involving the research credit.
February 9 -
Deloitte & Touche chair and CEO Lara Abrash has been watching the Big Four firm’s audit practice changing over the past two years.
February 9 -
Todd Shapiro, longtime president and CEO of the ICPAS, said Wednesday he intends to retire in February 2023.
February 9 -
The administration is pointing to funds still available to recipients of the credits that have not yet been claimed, as it struggles to extend those tax breaks this year.
February 8 -
The service is setting up so-called “surge teams,” temporarily moving approximately 1,200 employees with previous experience back into key areas from other parts of the agency.
February 8 -
The Value Reporting Foundation released a guide to the SASB standards with industry-specific guidance on how boards of directors can use SASB standards.
February 8
