Michael Cohn

Nearly half of corporate executives are concerned about their ability to implement the lease accounting standards, according to a survey by Deloitte.

The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board has released its 2017 Technical Agenda, listing the priorities and research areas that SASB plans to pursues this year.

The American Institute of CPAs has released an analysis of single audits and found several factors contribute to audit quality, indicating why some firms are having problems doing the audits.

The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service have delayed implementation of the Obama administration’s Section 385 documentation regulations for discouraging corporate tax inversions and earnings stripping until 2019.

Extensible Business Reporting Language, the data-tagging code now required by the Securities and Exchange Commission for filing financial statements, has been making headway not only in the U.S., but in other parts of the world.

CPA Ireland is absorbing the membership of the Institute of Incorporated Public Accountants as two of Ireland’s largest accounting professional bodies agreed to a permanent collaboration.

The retirement account savings program is winding down and officials are encouraging participants to move their funds to a Roth IRA.

Republican leaders in Congress and the Trump administration released a joint statement Thursday on their progress on tax reform ahead of Congress’s August recess and the broad principles they plan to follow.

The Internal Revenue Service has been doing a better job of processing and reviewing claims for Small Business Health Care Tax Credits, according to a new report, though the number of small businesses claiming the Obamacare credit has declined precipitously.

The Internal Revenue Service rehired more than 200 employees with previous conduct and performance issues, according to a new government report.

The American Institute of CPAs has issued a new guide to help accountants provide assurance on their corporate clients’ environmental information.

The head of the National Treasury Employees Union, which represents Internal Revenue Service employees, is asking Congress not to cut the IRS budget again.

The Center for Audit Quality and the Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society are celebrating the 15th anniversary of the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act with a series of videos featuring commentary from several accounting, finance and auditing experts.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board is disciplining Crowe Horwath’s member firm in Hong Kong for refusing to turn over audit work papers.

The American Institute of CPAs has released a new standard that provides guidance to auditors about their responsibilities when auditing securities exempt from registration under the Securities Act of 1933 and franchise offerings known as exempt offerings.

The Internal Revenue Service held a meeting of its Security Summit partners Tuesday in Dallas and reported on progress in battling identity theft tied to tax refund fraud, along with some setbacks.

Business confidence in the U.S. declined in the second quarter and is now at its lowest level since the fourth quarter of 2016, according to a new report from the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and the Institute of Management Accountants based on a survey of accountants.

More than 24,000 fraudulent tax returns were filed in 2015 using a prisoner’s Social Security Number, claiming refunds totaling over $1.3 billion, according to a new report.

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act was signed into law on July 30, 2002 and has led to vast changes in the accounting profession, although not necessarily in corporate ethics.

The Internal Revenue Service’s Office of Appeals plans to test a web-based videoconferencing option for taxpayers and their representatives to hold virtual face-to-meetings with IRS appeals officers without going to the IRS’s offices.