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 American Institute of CPAs’ Financial Reporting Committee has sent a letter to the Financial Accounting Standards Board questioning the costs and benefits of FASB’s current goodwill impairment model.
October 11 -
The Securities and Exchange Commission has named Rebekah Goshorn Jurata, a special assistant to the president for financial policy on the White House’s National Economic Council.
October 11 -
The Internal Revenue Service has issued a second early draft version of the new Schedule 1 for next tax season’s Form 1040 to include a question up top about whether a taxpayer has sold, received, exchanged or acquired cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin or Ethereum.
October 11 -
Economic confidence among accountants worldwide dropped to its lowest level in eight years during the third quarter, according to a new report from the ACCA and the IMA, although it improved slightly in the U.S. and the U.K.
October 10 -
The Top 100 Firm has expanded its presence in the Milwaukee area.
October 10 -
The service is offering a direct debit payment option to allow taxpayers to pay off their tax debts.
October 8 -
The Regional Leader firm based in Timonium, Maryland, has brought in Maureen McCarthy and her health care consulting firm as part of the KatzAbosch Medical Practice Service Group.
October 8 -
The Top 100 Firm has combined with an outsourced accounting firm also based in Atlanta.
October 8 -
The Treasury Department and IRS issued proposed regulations to help taxpayers avoid negative tax consequences in the transition away from the London Interbank Offered Rate and other interbank rates to newer reference rates.
October 8 -
Accounting Principals, a staffing and recruitment agency that works with accounting and financial professionals, published its 2020 Salary Guide on Tuesday.
October 8 -
Payroll processors are anticipating closer scrutiny after a high-profile scandal.
October 7 -
WithumSmith+Brown is commemorating the passing of one of the CPA firm’s founders, Fred Withum, who died Sept. 30, 2019 — a day before his 85th birthday.
October 7 -
The Internal Revenue Service could make better use of its data to ferret out abusive tax schemes involving charities and other tax-exempt groups, including syndicated conservation easements, according to a new report.
October 7 -
The company has been growing into new fields beyond sales and use taxes, thanks to its successful IPO last year and increased demand in the wake of the Supreme Court's Wayfair decision.
October 4 -
The Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants signed a Statement of Protocol on oversight arrangements with the Financial Reporting Council, a regulatory body for audit firms in the United Kingdom
September 27 -
A CPA firm in Williamsville, New York, has merged in Scott Cain and six associates from his previous firm, Wittlin, Cain, & Dry, LLP.
September 27 -
The Top 100 Firm has added a security technology company in Fairfield, California, to its advisory practice.
September 27 -
Technology services and targeted acquisitions will play major roles in the firm's expansion.
September 26 -
The Governmental Accounting Standards Board proposed accounting and financial reporting guidance for state and local governments to help them transition away from the London Interbank Offered Rate to newer reference rates.
September 26 -
The Internal Revenue Service released a new set of tax gap estimates for tax years 2011, 2012 and 2013, indicating the tax compliance rate is mostly unchanged from previous years.
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