Michael Cohn

A California CPA has won a key ruling in a suit against the California Board of Accountancy claiming it is improperly enforcing a fingerprinting requirement.

PricewaterhouseCoopers’ firm in the United Kingdom was fined a record £5 million ($6.4 million) by the U.K.’s Financial Reporting Council for its audits of Connaught, a social housing maintenance business that collapsed in 2010.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board is asking for comments on how effective its U.S. GAAP Financial Reporting Taxonomy really is.

CPAs and their business clients and corporate tax departments need to consider different scenarios for the possible corporate tax reforms now being weighed in Congress.

The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board has overhauled its board structure, adding a nine-member SASB Standards Board, overseen by the SASB Foundation board of directors.

Armanino is folding in two new firms, Team Jenn Corp, a managerial accounting firm that also provides HR and payroll services, and the Brenner Group, which specializes in offering outsourced financial management to growing technology companies.

Zuora, a provider of subscription commerce, billing and finance systems, has signed a deal to acquire Leeyo Software, which helps companies automate their transition to the new revenue recognition standards.

A pair of accounting professors has written a paper proposing a way to communicate accounting complexity.

The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants has released a new report calling for more professional skepticism on the part of auditors.

The Internal Revenue Service recently published an update to Publication 5146, Employment Tax Returns: Examinations and Appeal Rights, explaining the procedures IRS auditors use to conduct employment tax examinations and an employer’s rights and responsibilities during and after the examination process.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has released an accounting standards update containing guidance on which changes to the terms or conditions of a share-based payment award require companies to apply modification accounting.

The Governmental Accounting Standards Board released a pair of implementation guides with questions and answers explaining several GASB standards.

A group of CPAs talked about the changes they are seeing in today's firms.

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and a group of 14 other senators from both parties are asking the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department to clarify their rules to enable more lenders to refinance student loans.

The Institute of Internal Auditors has published a new guide to help auditors deal with the challenges of “big data,” the huge volumes of structured and unstructured information that’s being generated at a fast pace by today’s systems.

A French firm that claimed the Arthur Andersen name has lost a legal ruling in India against Andersen Tax, a few weeks after another setback in the U.S.

Taxpayers were required to file disclosures of so-called “micro-captive transactions” with the Internal Revenue Service by the beginning of this month, and many of them found it wasn’t so easy.

The omnibus appropriations bill passed by Congress includes a number of priorities and directives for the Internal Revenue Service.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday that total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 211,000 last month, including 5,200 in accounting and bookkeeping on a seasonally adjusted basis.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board is seeing signs of progress on audit quality in its inspections.