Michael Cohn

Crowe Horwath LLP has merged in AbleBridge, a Westborough, Mass.-based software company and consulting firm that develops and sells technology built around the Microsoft Dynamics Customer Relationship Management system.

Dixon Hughes Goodman LLP has expanded to Maryland by merging in Stegman & Company, reputedly the oldest Maryland-based CPA firm, on June 1.

Marcum LLP has merged in Lautze & Lautze CPAs & Financial Advisors, an accounting firm in San Francisco and San Jose, Calif., effective June 1.

Accounting Today columnist Jody Padar and former Accounting Today senior editor Liz Gold are co-hosting a new podcast series, “Let’s Get Radical.”

A new survey of U.S. taxpayers living abroad finds widespread opposition to the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, or FATCA, and similar tax compliance requirements.

The International Organization of Securities Commissions has released a new report providing an overview of how audit committees around the world oversee audit firms, with an eye toward improving audit quality at public companies.

Warren Averett, LLC, Certified Public Accountants and Advisors, is merging in Hutto & Carver, P.A., expanding the firm’s presence in Florida.

BDO USA LLP is expanding its New York metropolitan area practice by merging in Charles A. Barragato & Company, a firm with offices in New York City and Long Island that specializes in servicing high net worth individuals and family offices.

The pace of small business job growth dropped slightly in May after a strong start earlier in the year, according to a new report from the payroll giant Paychex.

The so-called “sharing economy” isn’t doing such a good job of disseminating the necessary tax information with its participants.

The Internal Revenue Service issued a new warning Friday to taxpayers about bogus phone calls from IRS impersonators demanding payment for a non-existent tax that they call the “federal student tax.”

Intuit reported an increase in users of both its TurboTax Online and QuickBooks Online user base last quarter.

Tsakopulos Brown Schott & Anchors plans to join CliftonLarsonAllen, effective June 1, 2016, allowing CLA to expand to San Antonio, Texas.

FreshBooks has released a credit card reader for Android users of the cloud accounting software for small businesses.

The American Institute of CPAs is asking the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department to offer more flexibility in what constitutes the definition of a “hospital” under the Affordable Care Act.

The American Institute of CPAs is working with the American Society of Appraisers, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and other organizations on issues facing the valuation profession and how to address them, including a new credential to enhance consistency and transparency in the fair value measurement process.

Figuring out how to pay taxes on gambling wins can be difficult for many tax clients, not to mention how to account for the losses.

The Internal Revenue Service is not using the available data to identify potentially erroneous claims for the Rehabilitation Credit, a tax incentive given to private sector developers for restoring and maintaining historic structures, according to a new report.

The House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee held a hearing Wednesday on “protecting small businesses from IRS abuse,” a day after the House Judiciary Committee held a misconduct hearing in an effort to oust IRS Commissioner John Koskinen.

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., the ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, has introduced legislation that would require presidential nominees such as Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, to release their tax returns.