Michael Cohn

The Institute of Management Accountants has appointed Alex C. Eng, vice president of U.S. corporate finance at EDF Renewable Energy in San Diego, as the new chair of its global board of directors for fiscal year 2017-2018.

A New Jersey man who graduated with an accounting degree before becoming a professional poker player won $8.1 million in the World Series of Poker on Sunday.

With the new revenue recognition standard taking effect next year, companies and their investors are bound to see some dramatic changes in the topline numbers being reported.

The Internal Revenue Service has introduced an email feature that enables taxpayers to get notifications in their personal email accounts about their payments using IRS Direct Pay or the Electronic Federal Tax Payment System.

Two firms are expanding in New York and Nebraska.

The Top 100 Firm is expanding in New York.

The Internal Revenue Service didn’t properly implement some provisions of the PATH Act aimed at reducing improper payments for refundable tax credits, instead allowing an estimated $152 million in credits, according to a new report.

The California Society of CPAs has reached its highest population ever and plans more outreach to accounting students and minorities.

Retailers are hoping to entice back-to-school shoppers this summer.

A group of 16 House Democrats has sent a letter to the Financial Accounting Standards Board asking it to require multinational companies to disclose more country-by-country reporting information in their public financial statements about where they pay taxes and book profits.

The Top 100 Firm is combining with a consultancy in Portland, Maine.

The Internal Revenue Service and its tax industry partners warned tax professionals Tuesday that takeovers of tax professionals’ accounts by cybercriminals are on the rise.

The American Institute of CPAs sent a set of tax reform recommendations to Senate Finance Committee chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, as the committee held back-to-back hearings Tuesday morning on tax reform and confirmation of an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury who will be in charge of tax policy and came from a firm that promoted controversial tax shelters.

The Association for Accounting Marketing has launched a new blog highlighting strategies to help CPA firms grow.

Deloitte has introduced a new tool that helps companies analyze how they might fare under various tax reform alternatives under consideration in Washington.

The Internal Revenue Service’s policies don’t comply with some of the federal government’s requirements that agencies must ensure all records are retrievable and usable for as long as needed, according to a new report.

Carr, Riggs & Ingram has expanded in Atlanta by adding AGH LLC, making CRI one of the largest firms in the city.

A group of Democrats led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and House Ways and Means Committee ranking member Richard Neal, D-Mass., has introduced legislation to allow same-sex couples who were previously barred from filing taxes jointly to now submit amended returns dating back to the year of their marriage.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers has introduced legislation to provide taxpayers more rights to have their cases heard by the Internal Revenue Service’s Office of Appeals.

Extensible Business Reporting Language is starting to become more widely used, thanks to the SEC’s rules requiring the use of XBRL in financial filings in recent years and a new rule requiring XBRL for foreign issuers.