Michael Cohn

The American Institute of CPAs’ Auditing Standards Board proposed a strategic plan that will guide the ASB’s work over the next three years.

The Institute of Internal Auditors intends to overhaul its ​Certification in Risk Management Assurance and Internal Audit Practitioner programs next year to meet evolving demands and stay ahead of various risks.

The International Federation of Accountants has named its first-ever board that has a majority of female members.

The Institute of Internal Auditors intends to overhaul its ​Certification in Risk Management Assurance and Internal Audit Practitioner programs to meet evolving demands and stay ahead of various risks.

The changes mainly reflect application of the new lease accounting standard for casinos with wide area progressive slot machines.

The GREEN Act aims to deal with climate change by offering a range of tax incentives for use of renewable energy.

The firm is expanding its presence in the San Fernando Valley by merging with a firm in Woodland Hills-based SRG.

The West Coast Top 100 Firm is planning to combine with a provider of reimbursement services for hospitals and health-system organizations in Texas.

The Institute of Management Accountants is helping promote International Fraud Awareness Week, to push financial professionals to do more to ensure fraud prevention and detection are a priority at the companies where they work.

The tax break included in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that encourages real estate investors to develop projects in economically distressed communities in exchange for deferring capital gains taxes for years has come under fire for not living up to its promise.

The Internal Revenue Service is expanding its efforts to ensure businesses and individuals are paying their taxes, particularly payroll taxes, with in-person visits planned by revenue officers to more parts of the country, starting recently in Wisconsin and later this month Texas and Arkansas.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board officially delayed the effective dates of its accounting standards for leases, credit losses, hedging and long-duration insurance contracts by issuing a pair of accounting standards updates.

The Top 100 Firm has expanded in its home base city of Indianapolis while adding more expertise in serving health care clients.

Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Chuck Rettig told an audience of tax professionals and accountants that he wants to hear from them about the impact of the far-reaching IRS reform legislation that Congress passed earlier this year.

The bill would raise the federal corporate income tax rate on companies that pay their CEO more than 50 times as much as their average employee.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board approved an accounting standards update to help companies make the transition from the London Interbank Offered Rate to newer reference rates.

The number of donor-advised fund accounts has tripled in the past four years and grown approximately 150 percent since the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act at the end of 2017, according to a new report.

Nearly 87 percent of the most recent projects undertaken by financial executives failed to meet either their original timeline or scope, according to a new report.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board released a proposed accounting standards update Tuesday aimed at clarifying some areas of its 2017 hedging standard for derivatives.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board could be making more changes ahead as the audit firm regulator deals with a tumultuous series of transformations in the past two years.