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 service offered information on how to elect to apply an overpayment on 2020 taxes against Q1 2021 estimated taxes, which are still due on April 15.
April 14 -
The board proposed changing “comprehensive annual financial report” to “annual comprehensive financial report” because the abbreviation sounds like a racist term in South Africa.
April 14 -
The memorandum of understanding with the Vietnam Ministry of Finance aims to advance the internal audit profession in Vietnam.
April 13 -
Accountants expressed much higher confidence in the economy during the first quarter of this year compared to last year, especially in North America, according to a new survey.
April 12 -
Rep. Lloyd Smucker's legislation is in line with a request from accounting and tax professional groups.
April 9 -
The Big Four firm is encouraging employees to use their vacation days by actually paying them additional money to do it.
April 9 -
Security experts are seeing a rise this tax season in phishing schemes and malware tied to hot-button subjects like tax refunds, stimulus payments and COVID-19 vaccines.
April 9 -
The long-awaited aid program aims to help music venues, performing arts groups, nightclubs, movie theaters and museums.
April 8 -
Notice 2021-25 offers details on a provision of the COVID-19 relief package from last December that allows a temporarily larger deduction.
April 8 -
Sikich LLP, a Top 100 Firm based in Chicago, is buying Process Stream, a quality management and insurance technology consulting firm in Princeton, New Jersey.
April 8 -
Employees who move to low-tax states may still be taxed by their former residence, as more states levy taxes on cross-border business.
April 7 -
Nearly a quarter of internal audit teams intend to implement cloud-based audit management or governance, risk and compliance software this year, according to a new survey.
April 6 -
The board is planning changes in how it conducts inspections of audit firms, and where it will focus.
April 6 -
The Internal Revenue Service is mailing letters to taxpayers explaining why they may not be getting as much of a Recovery Rebate Credit as they were expecting on their taxes.
April 5 -
The service intends to take steps to automatically refund money starting in May and continuing through the summer.
March 31 -
The service released a FAQ to explain how students and universities should report emergency financial aid grants related to the pandemic.
March 31 -
The profession is slowly becoming more diverse, but progress has been halting.
March 31 -
The economy continued to rebound this year despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, payroll giant ADP reported Wednesday.
March 31 -
The board released an ASU that helps the organizations decrease the complexity of performing a goodwill triggering event evaluation.
March 30 -
The Internal Revenue Service responded Tuesday to calls for extending more tax deadlines by giving taxpayers until May 17 to make IRA and HSA contributions and file some refund claims.
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