Michael Cohn

While the majority of accounting and tax practices offer policies to discourage gender bias and discrimination, women are divided over whether the firms’ leaders are actually carrying them out.

The Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department released a draft version of a proposed tax form to collect information about qualified opportunity zones.

The ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee wants to create two new tax incentives to help small businesses owned by women to hire and grow and get access to capital.

The fading impact of last year’s tax cuts cooled the pace of job growth.

Not as many companies are planning to increase employee wages as a result, according to a new survey by BDO USA. Instead more companies are planning to do stock buybacks, increase corporate dividends and pursue mergers and acquisitions.

CEO Steve Heathcote plans to expand the association, especially in Asia and Europe.

Hourly earnings grew this month, but job growth remained relatively flat.

The tax software developer is planning to take on some new projects in the U.S. and abroad.

Nathan Wheeler, a 43-year-old CPA in Portland, Oregon, who also owns a marijuana business, was sentenced to 51 months in federal prison for wire fraud and tax evasion after embezzling nearly $1 million from an Olympic snowboarding medalist.

Despite a series of accounting scandals, the major firms are increasing their dominance.

Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Charles Rettig issued an order Friday transferring authority over denials of requests for tax appeals to the IRS’s Office of Chief Counsel, despite recent legislation creating an independent Office of Appeals at the IRS.

The board has brought in Holly Greaves, a former CFO at the EPA, as its new CFO, but not publicly announced the move.

Rep. Jimmy Gomez, D-Calif., introduced legislation Friday modeled after the estate tax bill sponsored in the Senate by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.

The Internal Revenue Service is cautioning taxpayers and tax professionals to beware of a new twist on an old scam.

A drop in the number of job openings and in corporate optimism helped drive the AICPA’s Q3 2019 Personal Financial Satisfaction Index down slightly in the third quarter, but it remains near an all-time high.

The group who oversee the Financial Accounting Standards Board and the Governmental Accounting Standards Board, have begun a search for a new leader.

The bill that would force anonymous shell companies to disclose their actual ownership.

The U.S. labor market is showing some signs of a slowdown, according to a new report by payroll giant ADP.

Directors are too optimistic about their organizations’ ability to cope with major risks, according to a report from the Institute of Internal Auditors.

The Top 100 Firm has added a consulting firm in Reston, Virginia, that provides cybersecurity, digital forensics and business intelligence services.