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 has posted information on how people who weren’t supposed to receive their economic impact payments for the novel coronavirus pandemic should return the money.
By Michael CohnMay 6 -
A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced legislation Wednesday to enable small businesses to deduct their expenses even if they have received a loan from the federal government’s Paycheck Protection Protection Program that was later forgiven.
By Michael CohnMay 6 -
COVID-19 wiped out most of the jobs gained since the 2008-09 recession despite extensive tax cuts and stimulus payments from the IRS.
By Michael CohnMay 6 -
EisnerAmper has merged in consulting firm Compensation Resources Inc., and BKD has acquired part of Grant Thornton’s municipal government auditing practice.
By Michael CohnMay 5 -
Leaders of Congress’s tax-writing committees want employers to be able to continue providing health insurance to their furloughed employees and still qualify for tax credits.
By Michael CohnMay 5 -
The pandemic is 'turning up the volume' on security risks, according to security experts.
By Michael CohnMay 5 -
The international group has published a roadmap that focuses on four main areas of change.
By Michael CohnMay 4 -
Hotel and airline cancellation charges are giving way to more requests for work-from-home items.
By Michael CohnMay 1 -
The auditing profession is responding to the novel coronavirus pandemic by adjusting how it conducts audits, and that’s evident in the Center for Audit Quality, whose CEO, Julie Bell Lindsay, took over the leadership job when the priorities for the profession and the CAQ looked far different.
By Michael CohnApril 30 -
The Internal Revenue Service announced that it is delaying its Special Enrollment Examination tests for Enrolled Agents due to the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic shutting down its testing centers.
By Michael CohnApril 29 -
The American Institute of CPAs offered suggestions on how the federal government’s Paycheck Protection Program should deal with forgiving loans.
By Michael CohnApril 29 -
The International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board has released an exposure draft of a standard for improving the quality of audits of group financial statements.
By Michael CohnApril 29 -
PricewaterhouseCoopers has developed a contact-tracing app as the Big Four firm looks forward to reopening its offices during the coronavirus pandemic and tries to help its clients safely open theirs as more states announce plans to gradually lift their stay-at-home orders.
By Michael CohnApril 28 -
Public companies are dealing with a variety of financial reporting difficulties in the face of the unpredictable COVID-19 pandemic and the impact it’s having on businesses of all sizes.
By Michael CohnApril 27 -
The Internal Revenue Service is urging some benefits recipients to register their children and other dependents for the extra $500 per child stimulus payments by May 5 if they haven’t already filed a tax return for 2018 or 2019.
By Michael CohnApril 27 -
Payroll giant Paychex is partnering with Biz2Credit, Fundera and Lendio to help small businesses apply for the new funding offered by the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program.
By Michael CohnApril 24 -
The Top 100 Firm is expanding with two deals in Ohio before the end of the year.
By Michael CohnApril 23 -
The set of questions and answers explain how to implement and apply some of the board's recent pronouncements.
By Michael CohnApril 23 -
The Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department issued proposed regulations on a provision of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
By Michael CohnApril 23 -
The novel coronavirus pandemic is causing the biggest drop in Americans’ financial situation in over a decade.
By Michael CohnApril 23















