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 company is probing a problem that was uncovered through an internal reporting system.
April 27 -
The Internal Revenue Service is granting relief to taxpayers who have family coverage under a high deductible health plan and who contribute to a health savings account.
April 26 -
The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board Foundation has appointed Perella Weinberg Partners partner and CEO Robert K. Steel as its new chair, succeeding former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the founder and chief executive of Bloomberg LP. Steel previously worked under Bloomberg as deputy mayor.
April 26 -
Intuit reported a 6 percent increase in sales of its TurboTax Online consumer tax prep software, and a 4 percent increase in total TurboTax units sold during tax season this year, compared to last year.
April 26 -
The Internal Revenue Service would be required to hire a chief information officer to overhaul its aging computer systems, under a bill passed last week by the House.
April 26 -
The Internal Revenue Service spelled out new information reporting requirements Thursday for some life insurance contracts required under the recently enacted Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
April 26 -
A pair of Top 100 Firms are partnering on wealth management, with HBK CPAs & Consultants’ affiliate HBKS Wealth Advisors acquiring a minority stake in K·Coe Isom LLP’s subsidiary K·Coe Wealth Management LLC.
April 26 -
They hope to have it in legislative form by the end of the year. But that doesn’t mean it’s going to pass anytime soon.
April 25 -
A group of lawmakers on the House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee are asking the Internal Revenue Service’s acting commissioner, David Kautter, to explain why the IRS’s systems crash occurred on Tax Day, April 17.
April 25 -
The Center for Audit Quality and the Auditing Section of the American Accounting Association have picked three more entries as part of their Access to Audit Personnel Program.
April 25 -
In a new twist on an old scam, fraudsters are spoofing legitimate IRS phone numbers to demand payment on nonexistent bills.
April 24 -
The survey asks for input on the future direction of the auditing overseer.
April 24 -
AccountantsWorld has expanded its Expert Webinar Series this year, featuring 16 industry leaders, including a dozen of the Top 100 Most Influential People named by Accounting Today.
April 24 -
New reports indicate the effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on the self-employed are still unclear to many of them.
April 24 -
Businesses are taking time adjusting to the new revenue recognition and lease accounting rules.
April 23 -
The former CEO of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board is passing on the chairmanship post to vice-chair Jeffrey Hales.
April 23 -
The software helps taxpayers determine the new Section 199A tax break on qualified business income of partnerships and S corporations under the new tax law.
April 23 -
Randy Rupp, CEO of Top 100 Firm Rehmann, discusses how his firm is expanding its managed IT services practice.
April 23 -
Organizations whose applications for tax-exempt status were delayed by the IRS could be getting $3.5 million.
April 20 -
The Internal Revenue Service recently reduced a user fee, modified its policy on issuing opinion and advisory letters, and changed the pre-approved program for cash balance plans.
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