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 Internal Revenue Service is providing information about the child and dependent care credit and the paid sick and family leave credit, which were expanded under the American Rescue Plan.
June 11 -
The proposed changes are worrying investors and their tax advisors, especially the possibility of making them retroactive.
June 10 -
The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board and the International Integrated Reporting Council finalized their merger to unite their ESG reporting frameworks.
June 9 -
The institute's Auditing Standards Board amended its standards Tuesday to include guidance in two areas.
June 8 -
Clients anticipate that audit fees will increase in 2021 due to the impact of inflation, COVID-19, acquisitions and divestitures, according to a survey by Gartner.
June 8 -
The Internal Revenue Service is sending letters to over 36 million families about how they may be able to qualify for monthly Child Tax Credit payments, beginning in July.
June 7 -
The work-from-home environment is producing tax complexities for companies and their human resources departments.
June 7 -
The San Francisco-based firm is expanding to Redwood City, California.
June 7 -
The SEC abruptly fired William Duhnke as chairman of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. As part of the shakeup, PCAOB board member Duane DesParte will become acting chair, but the SEC plans to replace the entire slate of board members.
June 4 -
The unemployment rate declined 0.3 percentage point to 5.8%, as the economy slowly recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic.
June 4 -
International Accounting Standards Board chair Hans Hoogervorst is looking back at the growth of International Financial Reporting Standards as his decade running the IASB is set to end this month.
June 3 -
Business executives who are CPAs are feeling more optimistic about the U.S. economy than they’ve felt in the past three years.
June 3 -
Employment in the private sector increased by 978,000 jobs last month, payroll giant ADP reported, as the economy slowly continues to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.
June 3 -
As companies come under increasing pressure to deal with climate change and diversity, their internal auditors are putting more emphasis on making sure environmental, social and governance reports are reliable.
June 2 -
While the rate of job growth in the leisure and hospitality sector increased last month, it slowed in the construction industry, according to Paychex.
June 2 -
A GAO report finds that the regulations were burdensome for multinational companies, even though they saved through lower tax rates.
June 1 -
Bloomberg Tax & Accounting has improved the product to help multistate businesses with net operating losses across multiple states.
June 1 -
The Governmental Accounting Standards Board issued a proposal to improve the accounting and financial reporting requirements for state and local governments.
June 1 -
The Top 20 Firm based in Milwaukee, has merged in a Regional Leader headquartered in St. Louis.
June 1 -
The IFRS Foundation is looking for a chair and vice-chair of a board that will set global ESG reporting standards.
June 1
