Michael Cohn

The American Institute of CPAs has written a letter to Congress suggesting legislative changes in the new partnership audit regime ushered in by last year’s bipartisan budget deal.

The Internal Revenue Service needs to provide better security when transmitting taxpayers’ personal information to outside government agencies, banks and contractors, according to a new report.

Eide Bailly is adding the accounting firm Daines Goodwin & Co., effective Dec. 5, 2016, expanding Eide Bailly’s presence in Utah.

Some Internal Revenue Service employees didn’t do enough to protect sensitive taxpayer information when they were sending emails, according to a new report.

The Internal Revenue Service has launched the second year of its public awareness campaign aimed at improving taxpayer security in partnership with tax software companies, tax preparation chains and state tax authorities.

The International Federation of Accountants has sent a letter to Pope Francis on how the accounting profession can help him with the fight against financial fraud and corruption.

Financial executives are coping with an onrush of new accounting standards that are taking effect in the next few years, along with demands from the Securities and Exchange Commission to temper their companies’ reliance on non-GAAP measures.

The Internal Revenue Service’s Office of Professional Responsibility has created a new online lookup table that allows the public to find out more easily if they have hired a rogue tax practitioner.

A 2009 accounting standard that state and local governments have been using for reporting on their fund balances and fund types has mostly achieved its original purpose, according to a new report.

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is highlighting International Fraud Awareness Week with a new public awareness campaign.

Public companies in the U.S. recorded $57 billion in goodwill impairment last year, more than double the amount of impairment they recorded the previous year, according to a new study.

The Financial Accounting Foundation's Board of Trustees has voted to restructure several of its own committees, along with oversight of the Private Company Council, disbanding the Private Company Review Committee that has been overseeing it.

Finance executives are getting ready for the incoming Trump administration with a multitude of changes expected on the regulatory side while also dealing with all the new accounting standards rolling out in the next few years.

The Financial Accounting Foundation’s board of trustees has reappointed Russell G. Golden to a second term as chairman of the Financial Accounting Standards Board and named two new members: Marsha L. Hunt, vice president and corporate controller at Cummins Inc., and Harold L. Monk Jr., a partner at the accounting firm Carr, Riggs & Ingram LLC.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board is planning to welcome new board members as the terms of several of its members end next year.

Deloitte CEO Cathy Engelbert discussed how auditing firms can use advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence, data analytics and even drones to make audits more efficient.

Roger Philipp, the founder of the Roger CPA Review, has an event in his past that few of the thousands of CPA candidates who have taken his exam prep courses probably knew about: he once appeared on “The Dating Game.”

Weyrich, Cronin and Sorra is adding Greenberg Ettlin & Associates, extending WC&S’s presence in Maryland’s Cecil County.

The Internal Revenue Service has removed a rule requiring that a discharge of indebtedness for which a Form 1099–C, ‘‘Cancellation of Debt,’’ must be filed occurs when a 36-month non-payment testing period expires.

Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting has written a special post-election tax briefing on the tax law changes that could occur when Donald Trump takes office next year. The changes could be yuuge.