Michael Cohn

The CPA Consultants’ Alliance has appointed Bonnie Buol Ruszczyk of bbr marketing as the group’s new Marketing Chair and Carrie Steffen of the Whetstone Group as the new Deliverables Chair.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has inked a cooperative agreement with the German Auditor Oversight Body, a new regulator for audit firms in Germany.

National Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson has posted responses from the Internal Revenue Service to her recommendations for improving taxpayer service, along with papers delivered by presenters at an international conference her office convened last November on taxpayer rights.

ICBUSA, part of the Institute of Certified Bookkeepers, has partnered with the Landy Insurance Agency to offer professional liability insurance, privacy and cybercrime coverage to ICBUSA members.

A review of the Governmental Accounting Standards Board’s 2006 standard for pollution remediation reporting found it generally achieved its goal of improving the disclosures of state and local governments’ obligations to control pollution.

Ostrow Reisin Berk & Abrams Ltd. has added Red Granite, an accounting and financial services firm that offers cloud-based bookkeeping and outsourced CFO services.

A federal appeals court has ruled in favor of two Ernst & Young employees who wanted to participate in a class-action lawsuit against the firm about overtime pay rather than submit to mandatory arbitration.

Republican leaders of the Senate Finance Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee are asking the Treasury Department to go back to the drawing board on proposed regulations for changing the tax treatment of corporate debt and equity to curb corporate earnings stripping.

The Internal Revenue Service has created a new webpage with information to help people who participate in the so-called “sharing economy” get timely tax advice.

Salaries for accountants and finance professionals are expected to go up 2.8 percent in 2017, an increase from the 2.4 percent anticipated for this year, according to a soon-to-be-released salary guide from the staffing company Accounting Principals.

Wipfli LLP is expanding its presence in the Chicago area by adding Weltman Bernfield LLC, a firm based in the suburb of Buffalo Grove, Ill., effective September 1.

Gwen Jorgensen, a former tax accountant at Ernst & Young, won the gold medal on Saturday at the Triathlon in the Rio Olympic games.

The Internal Revenue Service’s Chief Counsel has released its annual Priority Guidance Plan for 2016 to 2017.

Less than half of filings for the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act have been accurate, according to a new survey.

The Internal Revenue Service has reportedly hit reality TV star and actress NeNe Leakes with a tax lien for $824,366.01 in unpaid taxes from 2014, and she good-humoredly tweeted a photo of herself running to the IRS tax office from her hotel.

Wolters Kluwer Tax and Accounting has introduced a new user interface for CCH Accounting Research Manager, its research system for financial reporting professionals.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board released its long-awaited accounting standards update for not-for-profit financial reporting, albeit with scaled back ambitions to keep the standards for nonprofit organizations aligned with standards for businesses.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board identified deficiencies at 96 percent of the firms that audit broker-dealers, according to a new report Thursday.

Barfield, Murphy, Shank & Smith plans to expand its footprint in Alabama by combining with Himmelwright, Huguley & Boles, a CPA firm in the Auburn-Opelika area, on January 1 next year.

The American Institute of CPAs is proposing to change the current peer review report so it clearly indicates if a Single Audit was chosen.