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 Top 100 Firm has combined with a firm in Braintree, Massachusetts that specializes in servicing clients in the affordable housing industry.
March 25 -
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team included forensic accountants who helped the former FBI director investigate allegations of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, according to a letter released Sunday by Attorney General William Barr summarizing Mueller’s findings.
March 25 -
Senior finance executives are working on implementing a slew of advanced technologies at a rapid rate, according to a survey by Grant Thornton.
March 22 -
The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service are lowering the withholding underpayment threshold to 80 percent.
March 22 -
The Internal Revenue Service is working on a new study analyzing the 62-year-old rules for corporate spinoffs.
March 22 -
Proposed regulations spell out the requirements under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, including some new forms.
March 22 -
The federal investigators who uncovered the scam probably got help from the accountants.
March 21 -
The Financial Accounting Standards Board is aligning its definition with the American Alliance of Museums’ Code of Ethics for Museums.
March 21 -
The Internal Revenue Service has been cracking down on tax-related ID theft, helping make 11 arrests and indict 15 individuals in recent weeks.
March 20 -
The service scrambled to provide guidance and forms for taxpayers on the new 20% tax break for qualified business income in time for tax season.
March 19 -
EY has added a firm based in Irvine, expanding the Big Four firm’s presence in Southern California.
March 19 -
Blucora plans to combine HD Vest’s individual tax advisor focus with 1st Global’s institutional, multi-partner focus.
March 19 -
The Internal Revenue Service isn’t doing enough to flag over $74 million in potentially erroneous claims for the Excess Social Security Tax Credit, according to a new report.
March 18 -
Three pieces of guidance outline new requirements for companies to disclose CAMs in their audit reports.
March 18 -
The accounting firm association has appointed a longtime ACCA executive director as its new chief, effective June 1, 2019.
March 18 -
PricewaterhouseCoopers has settled with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation for $335 million over its audits of Colonial Bank, which failed in the midst of the financial crisis.
March 15 -
Financial institutions are scrambling to prepare for the imminent approach of the credit losses standard.
March 15 -
A pair of Republican and Democratic senators introduced bipartisan legislation to fix one of the technical problems in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
March 15 -
PKF International has appointed James Hickey as the new CEO of the global network of independent accounting firms, effective March 19.
March 15 -
The board is giving companies an overview of some of the key areas it will be looking at during upcoming audit firm inspections.
March 14
