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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More than half of taxpayers in the U.S. find the tax filing process stressful and 39 percent are using online tax filing software, according to a new survey.
January 29 -
The Institute of Management Accountants has reached a milestone of 100,000 members for the first time in the IMA’s near century of operation.
January 29 -
The Internal Revenue Service began the 2018 tax filing season Monday as the agency plans to receive more than 155 million tax returns this year.
January 29 -
Credit Karma, a personal finance site that offers free credit scores and credit monitoring, expanded into offering free tax prep services last year and is quickly growing as it enters its second tax season.
January 29 -
The Internal Revenue Service is getting ready to open the tax filing season on Monday, Jan. 29, as it gears up to handle the new tax law.
January 26 -
Maillie LLP is adding Rowland, Johnson and Company, a CPA firm based in New Castle, Del.
January 26 -
Aprio LLP, a CPA-led business advisory firm, has acquired RRB Business Services LLC, an Atlanta-based CPA and consulting firm.
January 26 -
UHY Advisors, Inc. has acquired Bright Point Consulting, a finance and accounting software implementation firm based in Raleigh, N.C.
January 25 -
Bloomberg Tax released its 2018 Tax & Accounting Outlook, focusing on the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that Congress passed last month.
January 25 -
William J. McDonough, the original chairman of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board after the PCAOB was created by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and a former president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, died Monday.
January 25 -
The Financial Accounting Standards Board’s Emerging Issues Task Force plans to propose new rules for how to deal with cloud computing service costs.
January 25 -
PricewaterhouseCoopers’ firm in India is appealing a two-year ban on auditing public companies by the Securities Exchange Board of India.
January 25 -
The Financial Accounting Standards Board has issued an accounting standards update to clarify how to apply the new lease accounting standard to land easements, simplifying adoption of the standard for some easements.
January 25 -
Thomson Reuters has released several resources to help tax and accounting professionals deal with the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
January 24 -
Amazon has informed its third-party sellers whose products are stored in its facilities in Massachusetts that it will be providing information to the state tax authority in what is believed to be a first for the company.
January 24 -
President Trump reportedly plans to name Charles Rettig, a California tax attorney, as the next commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service.
January 24 -
Lutz acquires Shonsey; and Noyes buys Kiely.
January 23 -
Marisa Garcia, a managing director at CohnReznick Advisory, talks about how FASB’s new standard may affect some industries differently.
January 23 -
The short-term spending bill that President Trump signed into law Monday night includes provisions that delay or suspend three taxes mandated by the Affordable Care Act that have not yet taken effect.
January 23 -
Mandatory quarterly reporting by public companies can lead to a short-sighted focus on near-term results, according to a new academic study.
January 22
