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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Hiring kept up its robust pace with the help of tax cuts.
October 3 -
GT has acquired a life sciences consulting firm based in the Philadelphia area.
October 3 -
The Internal Revenue Service released guidance Wednesday on the business expense deduction for meals and entertainment in the wake of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
October 3 -
The Top 100 Firm is adding Texas-based MRZ.
October 3 -
Two new documents from the board suggest enhancements to the reporting model, and new ideas about recognizing elements in financial statements.
September 28 -
The Louisville, Kentucky-based Top 100 Firm has formed a new technology affiliate.
September 28 -
The Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department intend to issue proposed regulations providing that the market discount on a bond isn’t includible in income, according to a section of the new tax law.
September 28 -
Legislation relating to family savings and startup expensing passed in one chamber of Congress, but is not likely to go through in the Senate before the end of the year.
September 27 -
The Internal Revenue Service’s Bank Secrecy Act program, in which it is supposed to safeguard against money laundering, is having only a minimal impact on tax compliance, according to a new report.
September 27 -
The new tax law is leading to missed deadlines and a shortened cycle for the IRS.
September 27 -
The House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee held a hearing Wednesday on the Internal Revenue Service’s online taxpayer authentication efforts after a string of security breaches in recent years.
September 26 -
The Internal Revenue Service issued its annual notice Wednesday describing the daily rates that taxpayers can use for lodging, meals and other expenses when traveling for business.
September 26 -
The Institute of Management Accountants is working to encourage more inclusiveness in the profession.
September 26 -
The deal will expand the Georgia-based firm’s client base of McDonald’s franchisees to dozens of other states.
September 26 -
FloQast, a provider of close management software, is eyeing the problems with the new revenue recognition standard, especially for privately held technology companies like itself.
September 21 -
Taxpayers can use the deduction up until the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act says they can't.
September 21 -
Bloomberg Tax has introduced a leased assets application to help organizations comply with the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s new leasing standard.
September 21 -
Boomer Consulting has joined forces with the Business Learning Institute, a strategic learning partner and talent management consultancy, to develop the Anticipatory Accelerator, a two-day workshop to help accounting firms identify client opportunities.
September 20 -
A new report from the two groups shows how auditors and accountants can help with corporate governance strategies.
September 20 -
Officials from the Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Securities and Exchange Commission discussed some of the latest fraud trends and how they are combatting them during an Association of Certified Fraud Examiners fraud risk management summit in New York.
September 20
