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 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 -
The Internal Revenue Service backtracked from a plan to use facial recognition software from a third-party company for taxpayer authentication.
February 7 -
The unit that checks employee benefit plans for compliance with various requirements scored dramatically lower on its quality reviews in recent years, according to a new report.
February 7 -
The Internal Revenue Service backlog is adding to long delays in processing carryback refunds of net operating losses claimed by companies during the pandemic.
February 4 -
Republicans in Congress have written the service questioning the use of ID.me, and introduced a bill that would ban the practice.
February 4 -
PricewaterhouseCoopers has expanded its alliance with the cloud-based financial reporting technology company Workiva to handle environmental, social and governance reporting and services.
February 4 -
The employment situation in January was better than expected, as employers added a robust 467,000 jobs despite the Omicron variant, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported,
February 4 -
H&R Block is banking on a new service called Spruce to offer tax clients banking options.
February 3 -
A group of lawmakers teamed up Thursday to introduce bipartisan legislation that aims to create a workable structure for taxing purchases made with cryptocurrency.
February 3 -
Baker Tilly acquired Orchestrate Healthcare; and Mugford & DiBella merged in Daigle, Smith & Chubet.
February 3 -
The Top 10 Firm named partner and executive team member Christopher Tower its first-ever ESG strategy and services leader.
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