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 Financial Accounting Standards Board released a set of mostly minor revisions and technical corrections to the lease accounting standard.
July 20 -
The International Federation of Accountants and the International Bar Association are partnering on an initiative to combat corruption, ahead of the gathering of global leaders at the G20 summit in Buenos Aires later this year.
July 20 -
A closely divided Senate Finance Committee advanced the nominee for the next Internal Revenue Service commissioner, Charles Rettig, by a vote of 14 to 13, but he awaits a vote by the full Senate.
July 19 -
Three firm leaders shared their challenges and the new trends they are facing.
July 19 -
The National Association of State Boards of Accountancy and the American Institute of CPAs’ U.S. International Qualifications Appraisal Board have signed a mutual recognition agreement with CPA Australia.
July 19 -
The Government Accountability Office has updated its auditing standards guide.
July 18 -
Top 100 Firm CLA has added a Charlotte, N.C.-based consultancy.
July 18 -
Erkki Liikanen, a former governor of the Finnish Central Bank, has been named chair of the IFRS Foundation trustees, the group that oversees the International Accounting Standards Board and the International Financial Reporting Standards they develop.
July 18 -
The International Federation of Accountants has released an updated reference.
July 17 -
The Finance Committee is expected to approve Trump’s nomination of a tax attorney as the next head of the Internal Revenue Service.
July 17 -
Companies that refer to trade secrets in their Form 10-K annual reports are at greater risk of cyberattacks from criminals who are intent on uncovering them, according to a team of accounting researchers.
July 16 -
More than 75 percent of CPAs in New Jersey say the Garden State’s recently enacted budget would have a negative impact on the economy, according to a new survey by the New Jersey Society of CPAs.
July 16 -
The California Society of CPAs marked a milestone Monday, with chairman Lewis Sharpstone saying the organization now has 45,000 members, making it the biggest state CPA society in the country.
July 16 -
Axiom, a provider of legal contract technology, has introduced the Contracts Intelligence Platform for Lease Accounting to help organizations uncover embedded leases that are subject to the new lease accounting standard.
July 16 -
The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board held its first board meeting under its new leadership this week to discuss progress on its provisional standards, with an eye to releasing them in the fall.
July 13 -
KPMG is partnering with analytics provider SAS on helping banks make the transition to the current expected credit loss, or CECL, accounting standard that begins to take effect in January 2020.
July 13 -
The upcoming rules may affect one tactic that some wealthy taxpayers have been using to get around the cap on deducting local property taxes.
July 13 -
The Internal Revenue Service is preparing to send millions of dollars to vets who received disability severance payments starting in 1991.
July 13 -
The bill would allow taxpayers to treat the amounts paid for membership at a fitness facility as medical expenses.
July 12 -
CPAs and EAs are raising objections to the draft version of the Employee’s Withholding Allowance Certificate.
July 12
