Michael Cohn

Private sector employers added 147,000 jobs in October, according to the latest monthly jobs report from payroll giant ADP, the last before the election.

The Internal Revenue Service is warning against the use of so-called “micro-captive transactions” and similar transactions as potentially abusive.

The Internal Revenue Service has taken steps to improve the offer in compromise process for both taxpayers and the IRS, but it can still do more, according to a new report.

Audit committees are increasing the amount of information they are giving investors on the actions they are taking to oversee their outside auditing firms, according to a new report.

BDO USA LLP is partnering with CoStar Group’s CoStar Real Estate Manager division to advise companies on complying with the lease accounting standard.

K·Coe Isom is growing its footprint in California by acquiring Schmidt, Bettencourt & Medeiros in Turlock, the firm’s sixth location in the state.

Small business employment growth fell for the second month in a row in October, slipping 0.11 percent from September, according to payroll giant Paychex.

Nearly one out of four internal auditors around the world face pressures to either suppress or change their audit findings, according to a new report.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has initiated proceedings against an audit partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers accusing him of not doing enough to audit a venture capital fund whose manager was stealing money.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged PKF O’Connor Davies and one of its senior partners with issuing fraudulent audit reports on the municipal bond offerings of the town of Ramapo, N.Y.

Three-quarters of companies plan to give employees holiday bonuses this year, up from 67 percent last year, according to a new survey of 500 HR and hiring managers by the staffing company Accounting Principals.

With the presidential election just around the corner, the American Institute of CPAs is detecting signs of renewed optimism in individuals’ financial outlook.

The Internal Revenue Service said Friday the annual period for renewing a Preparer Tax Identification Number is now underway for tax professionals.

Internal Revenue Service examiners did not always follow procedures for weighing which tax debts could actually be paid by delinquent taxpayers, according to a new report.

The Internal Revenue Service continues to fall short in its cybersecurity efforts, according to a new report.

Sikich LLP is acquiring Stanfield & Associates, a Chicago-area firm that specializes in doing outsourced accounting for family offices that provide wealth management for high net worth individuals and families.

A group of Senators, including Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., are asking KPMG about the quality of its audits in the wake of the recent scandal involving Wells Fargo’s opening of millions of unauthorized customer accounts.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has released an accounting standards update for income taxes related to intra-entity transfers of assets other than inventory.

The American Institute of CPAs has signed an agreement with John Wiley & Sons to take over publishing of the AICPA’s entire catalog of finance and accounting publications.

Multinational corporations could end up shifting even more of their income to low-tax countries under some tax reform proposals, according to a new study.