Michael Cohn

The American Institute of CPAs offered suggestions on how the federal government’s Paycheck Protection Program should deal with forgiving loans.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Top 100 Firm is expanding with two deals in Ohio before the end of the year.

The set of questions and answers explain how to implement and apply some of the board's recent pronouncements.

The Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department issued proposed regulations on a provision of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

The novel coronavirus pandemic is causing the biggest drop in Americans’ financial situation in over a decade.

Democrats on the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee have sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin asking what has happened with the delayed economic impact payments.

FinancialForce, a Salesforce-based provider of enterprise resource planning and professional services automation technology, has released its Spring 2020 cloud-based software, with added features in the areas of project and resource management, accounting and analytics.

In the shadow of the coronavirus, the AICPA and other groups are working on ways to help the environment.

LEA Global, an international accounting firm association also known as the Leading Edge Alliance, has appointed Anthony Szczepaniak as its CEO.

The Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department provided cross-border tax guidance Tuesday to provide relief to individuals and businesses affected by travel disruptions arising from the novel coronavirus pandemic.

The proposal would delay the effective date for one year for some private companies and nonprofits in applying the leases standard and for franchisor businesses in applying the revenue recognition standard.

The American Institute of CPAs’ Auditing Standards Board has decided to defer the effective dates of seven of its recently issued Statements on Auditing Standards because of the novel coronavirus pandemic.

Recipients of Social Security benefits, as well as railroad retirement and veterans benefits recipients, will need to act fast.

The Institute of Internal Auditors has stopped most of its in-person activities, including training, during the COVID-19 pandemic and will instead do online testing on a temporary basis for its certification exams.

The Governmental Accounting Standards Board published guidance Monday to improve accounting and financial reporting for public-public partnership arrangements — also known as P3s — along with public-private and availability payment arrangements (APAs).