Michael Cohn

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has signed a cooperative agreement with the Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority, allowing them to cooperate on joint inspections and oversight of auditing firms subject to of both organizations’ regulatory jurisdiction.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board is likely to issue guidance on the use of blockchain and data analytics technology as more auditing firms weigh the benefits and drawbacks of them.

Even as the Trump administration takes a strong line on renegotiating NAFTA, the American Institute of CPAs renewed a mutual recognition agreement with the accounting bodies of Canada and Mexico on Wednesday.

The employment market improved despite lingering problems from the recent hurricanes and wildfires still affecting parts of the U.S.

Cherry Bekaert, a Top 100 Firm based in Richmond, Va., has expanded to Nashville, Tenn., by acquiring Frasier, Dean & Howard.

Audit committees are providing investors with more information about their outside auditing firms, according to a new report.

Paychex found a slight decline in the rate of growth in small jobs and wages in October, according to its latest monthly report.

Baker Tilly International has named Timothy Christen as the accounting firm network’s new chairman after he recently completed a term chairing the American Institute of CPAs.

The Internal Revenue Service said Monday that it was able to transition most of its e-Services user applications to a new platform over the weekend, although it reiterated its warning Friday of delays in moving to new authentication technology.

A prominent investor group is applauding the Securities and Exchange Commission’s approval this week of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board’s new standard expanding the scope of the audit report.

The deadline is approaching next year for public companies to begin using the new revenue recognition standard, and many not-for-profits may find themselves confronting the new standard a lot sooner than they had expected.

The Internal Revenue Service has not been able to upgrade its online e-Services applications to a more secure authentication method, the IRS admitted Friday.

The Justice Department is settling lawsuits with Tea Party and conservative groups that had sued the Internal Revenue Service over delays in granting them tax-exempt status, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the IRS should apologize to the groups.

Eide Bailly LLP is extending its reach to Texas, adding Davis Kinard & Co, PC, a firm with offices in Abilene, Haskell, Plainview and Seymour, effective Dec. 4, 2017.

President Donald Trump announced Thursday his intention to designate Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy David Kautter as acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service.

The number of audit deficiencies tied to fair value measurements is still high, but declined for the second year in a row, according to a new analysis of Public Company Accounting Oversight Board inspection reports on auditing firms.

The American Institute of CPAs has sent its tax reform wish list to the half dozen Republicans who are leading a rewrite of the tax code.

The confidence of U.S. investors in the U.S. capital markets reached a record high this year, according to an annual survey by the Center for Audit Quality, with high confidence expressed in auditors and audited financial statements.

The American Institute of CPAs has named BKD CPAs & Advisors chief operating officer Eric Hansen as the next chairman.

Squar Milner LLP is merging in Loomis & Co. CPAs, expanding the Newport Beach, Calif.-based Top 100 Firm’s footprint to Silicon Valley, effective Nov. 1, 2017.