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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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 -
The Treasury Department finalized the repeal Thursday of 296 obsolete or duplicative tax regulations in response to President Trump’s executive orders.
March 14 -
The American Institute of CPAs has named Angela Newell, a national assurance partner at BDO USA’s Dallas office, as the new chair of the AICPA’s Financial Reporting Executive Committee, succeeding Crowe partner Jim Dolinar.
March 14 -
Vaibhav Taneja, Tesla’s current corporate comptroller, is taking over as the electric car maker’s new chief accounting officer Thursday and is reporting to recently named Chief Financial Officer Zach Kirkhorn.
March 14 -
Rep. Lloyd Doggett of Texas and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island introduced a pair of bills aimed at stopping corporations from using offshore tax havens and outsourcing jobs to other countries.
March 13 -
Surveys released this week reveal lingering uncertainty about the new tax law.
March 13
