Michael Cohn

The Securities and Exchange Commission has tapped Deloitte partner Sagar S. Teotia as deputy chief accountant in the SEC's Office of the Chief Accountant.

The Top 100 firm is adding a cybersecurity company based in Lexington, Ky., effective April 1.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has decided to retain PricewaterhouseCoopers as its official Oscar ballot accounting firm, despite the high-profile snafu last month in which the wrong Best Picture winner was announced.

Two former chairmen of the Senate Finance Committee have re-introduced legislation to protect tax fraud whistleblowers from retaliation.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has disciplined the former chief executive officer and chairman of Deloitte’s Brazil firm for failing to cooperate with a PCAOB investigation.

A group of lawmakers is asking for extra money for the Internal Revenue Service instead of the steep cuts proposed by the Trump administration.

More than a third of CFOs’ time is being spent as strategic advisors as they move beyond the traditional financial management role, according to a new survey by Grant Thornton.

The Internal Revenue Service is proposing procedures for how a taxpayer can ask for automatic consent to change an accounting method in preparation for the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s new revenue recognition standard.

Sikich LLP is expanding its employee benefit services business by acquiring Evolution Retirement Services, a firm based in the Milwaukee area.

Eighty percent of CFOs at U.S. companies have not yet begun the transition to the upcoming leasing standard, according to a new survey.

The new revenue recognition standard is going to force many companies to make new disclosures, but they shouldn’t wait until the last minute to get ready, warns a recent report.

More than half the U.S. workforce has experienced a problem with their paycheck during their career, according to new estimates.

Approximately two-thirds of residents of Group of 20 countries distrust politicians about the tax system, according to a new survey by a trio of accounting organizations.

The Internal Revenue Service failed to deactivate its Identity Protection Personal Identification Number program after a data breach in May 2015 for nearly a year, despite repeated recommendations from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, according to a new report.

Deloitte said Monday it has acquired substantially all the assets of Day 1 Solutions, a cloud consulting firm, and announced a commitment to add 3,000 new high-tech engineering jobs in the U.S. over the next year, adding new “cloud studios” in different locations.

Accounting firms in North America are taking the risk of losing business by making their customers wait on hold for more than 25 seconds, according to new research.

The Tax Court decided in favor of Amazon.com in an expensive transfer pricing dispute with the Internal Revenue Service involving intellectual property that the e-commerce giant assigned to a European subsidiary in Luxembourg.

The Internal Revenue Service has published its annual update on the depreciation and inclusion tables for owners and lessees of vehicles.

PricewaterhouseCoopers has settled a lawsuit with MF Global’s bankruptcy administrator for an undisclosed sum.

A French firm claims it is continuing to build its network in defiance of Andersen Tax's legal claims.