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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Somerset CPAs adds Jongleux CPA Group; Barnes Dennig combines with Lucarelli Tactical Group and Ducks in a Row; and Williams & Co. buys Nelson, Gayer, Versteeg.
By Michael CohnJanuary 10 -
The Top 100 Firm is expanding its client base in the health care sector.
By Michael CohnJanuary 10 -
The Institute wants modifications pertaining to net tested losses, anti-abuse provisions and interaction with the section 245A dividends received deduction.
By Michael CohnJanuary 10 -
The Top 100 Firm is adding a pair of municipal advisory businesses in a three-way merger.
By Michael CohnJanuary 10 -
A longtime stalwart of the Financial Accounting Standards Board is now on the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board.
By Michael CohnJanuary 10 -
The organizations are worried about underpayment and underwithholding penalties stemming from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
By Michael CohnJanuary 9 -
The Top 100 Firm is adding a practice that specializes in customs and international trade regulation, and one that handles crisis management and business continuity.
By Michael CohnJanuary 9 -
DHG is adding a Fort Worth, Texas-based consulting firm that specializes in data analytics for health care businesses.
By Michael CohnJanuary 9 -
A three-way merger has brought in two more firms in Dallas.
By Michael CohnJanuary 8 -
The association of accounting and consulting firms hopes to attract more early-stage entrepreneurial firms.
By Michael CohnJanuary 8 -
The deadline isn't far away for privately held businesses to begin adhering to the new rules.
By Michael CohnJanuary 8 -
The framework aims to help more firms spell out how they're working to improve their auditing services.
By Michael CohnJanuary 8 -
The Top 100 Firm is expanding its presence in the Bay Area after another recent merger in San Francisco.
By Michael CohnJanuary 7 -
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal, D-Mass., is asking the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department to explain what impact the partial government shutdown will have on the upcoming tax season.
By Michael CohnJanuary 4 -
The Institute of Management Accountants is shedding light on the colleges and universities in the U.S. and abroad whose students had the highest pass rates on the Certified Management Accountant exam.
By Michael CohnJanuary 4 -
Berberich Trahan & Co. has acquired the Topeka, Kansas, offices of CBIZ MHM LLC and its affiliated CPA firm Mayer Hoffman McCann, effective Jan. 1, 2019.
By Michael CohnJanuary 4 -
The top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee wants the service to waive the penalties that he expects to hit millions of workers and families.
By Michael CohnJanuary 3 -
The American Institute of CPAs’ Auditing Standards Board voted to issue a final version of its Statement on Auditing Standards, Omnibus Statement on Auditing Standards—2019, to align its guidance more closely with that of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.
By Michael CohnJanuary 3 -
The Governmental Accounting Standards Board has posted a proposed implementation guide with a set of questions and answers about GASB’s new standards on accounting and financial reporting for fiduciary activities.
By Michael CohnJanuary 3 -
The Top 100 Firm is adding a research firm that studies relations between automobile makers and their suppliers.
By Michael CohnJanuary 3
















