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 Financial Accounting Standards Board made some narrow improvements to different aspects of the financial instruments guidance, including the current expected credit losses standard.
March 9 -
The Internal Revenue Service is giving holders of foreign retirement trusts an exemption from some of the information reporting requirements, along with the abatement of penalties.
March 9 -
The proposal involves how to define the criteria for the component units in pension plans and deferred compensation plans for state and local government employees.
March 9 -
The American Institute of CPAs has submitted comments to the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department asking them for more guidance on the qualified business income deduction in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
March 9 -
CPAs who are also business executives are concerned about the potential global fallout from the outbreak.
March 5 -
The Top 25 Firm is expanding in Orange County, California in May.
March 5 -
Prager Metis CPAs wants more accounting firms to join the annual Walk to End Alzheimer’s.
March 5 -
Finance professionals are focusing on product development, business model changes, systems, and staffing in 2020, according to a new survey.
March 4 -
CPA financial planners are noticing scams perpetrated against their elderly clients, according to a new survey by the American Institute of CPAs.
March 4 -
The Securities and Exchange Commission is giving “conditional” regulatory relief from certain filing obligations for public companies due to the outbreak.
March 4 -
The job gains were mainly at big companies and largely came before the outbreak of the coronavirus in the U.S.
March 4 -
The American Institute of CPAs will begin offering SOC for Supply Chain, a new assurance framework, this month, to help business clients have more confidence around the viability of their global supply chain in the midst of threats like the coronavirus.
March 3 -
The pace of small-business job growth accelerated for the third month in a row in February, according to payroll giant Paychex, but the rate of hourly earnings growth slipped.
March 3 -
The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants has released a paper examining the impact of the coronavirus, and how it is affecting economies around the world, including the U.S.
March 2 -
Salary and compensation rose for the first time in three years, according to an annual salary survey.
March 2 -
The Top 100 Firm has added a Chicago-based technology consulting firm to its Wipfli Digital unit.
March 2 -
PricewaterhouseCoopers is adding a third external director to its board, former SEC commissioner Troy Paredes, and establishing an Assurance Quality Advisory Committee where the firm will bring in more outside voices to help improve its audits.
February 28 -
The Financial Accounting Foundation, the group that oversees the Financial Accounting Standards Board and the Governmental Accounting Standards Board, has named acting president John W. Auchincloss as the FAF’s executive director.
February 27 -
Erin Collins, who formerly worked at KPMG and the IRS, will lead the Taxpayer Advocate Service.
February 27 -
The number of countries reporting their financial positions on an accrual basis is expected to increase from 37 to 98 by 2023, according to a new report.
February 26
