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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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.
May 10 -
The Governmental Accounting Standards Board released a pair of implementation guides with questions and answers explaining several GASB standards.
May 9 -
A group of CPAs talked about the changes they are seeing in today's firms.
May 9 -
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.
May 8 -
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.
May 8 -
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.
May 5 -
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.
May 5 -
The omnibus appropriations bill passed by Congress includes a number of priorities and directives for the Internal Revenue Service.
May 5 -
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.
May 5 -
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board is seeing signs of progress on audit quality in its inspections.
May 4 -
The Internal Revenue Service released the 2018 inflation-adjusted limitations for health savings accounts Thursday.
May 4 -
Partners need to accept the role of teacher in order to delegate successfully.
May 3 -
The Internal Revenue Service is planning June 18 as the tentative date for moving its e-Services platform to what it promises will be more secure and modern technology.
May 3 -
A new report finds Deloitte ahead of other Big Four firms in the global market for “digital transformation” services.
May 3 -
Private sector employers added 177,000 jobs in April, including 72,000 in professional and businesses services, according to payroll giant ADP, in a sign that the hiring pace is slowing somewhat from last year.
May 3 -
The American Institute of CPAs, along with the American Society of Appraisers and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, have begun offering an exam for a new Certified in Entity and Intangible Valuations credential for fair value measurement.
May 2 -
The Center for Audit Quality, the Council of Institutional Investors and CFA Institute have written a joint letter to the leaders of the House Financial Services Committee objecting to legislation that would weaken some key provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the Dodd-Frank Act.
May 2 -
Job growth slackened at small businesses last month, although wages were up compared to a year ago, according to a new report from payroll giant Paychex.
May 2 -
WithumSmith+Brown has combined practices with the IT consulting firm Portal Solutions, expanding Withum’s array of digital services, effective May 1.
May 2 -
The Internal Revenue Service may be on the verge of loosening recent restrictions on conservation easement tax breaks that were imposed at the end of the Obama administration.
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