Michael Cohn, editor-in-chief of AccountingToday.com, has been covering business and technology for a variety of publications since 1985. Prior to joining Accounting Today and WebCPA, he worked for Red Herring, Internet World, Beyond Computing, Accounting Technology and PC Magazine, and freelanced for a variety of other business publications. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in English, he studied accounting at the Wharton School of Business, and currently lives in New York City.
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RSM US LLP, the firm formerly known as McGladrey, has begun compiling an index of middle-market business performance, in collaboration with Moodys Analytics.
By Michael CohnMarch 22 -
More than half of companies in India are not yet ready for new Indian Accounting Standards, according to a new survey.
By Michael CohnMarch 21 -
The Internal Revenue Service has released the Top 10 Identity Theft Prosecutions for Fiscal Year 2015 to highlights its efforts to combat tax refund fraud and identity theft.
By Michael CohnMarch 21 -
The Internal Revenue Service is doing a better job of controlling its spending on conferences after the IRS faced ridicule three years ago for spending on an embarrassing series of training videos for conferences.
By Michael CohnMarch 21 -
A federal court has barred the owner of a dozen Liberty Tax Service franchises in the Los Angeles and Las Vegas areas after discovering rampant tax fraud, while a Maryland grand jury has indicted the owner and several tax preparers at some Liberty Tax franchises in Baltimore.
By Michael CohnMarch 21 -
The Internal Revenue Service has raised interest rates for the calendar quarter beginning April 1, 2016, the first change to interest rates since the fourth calendar quarter of 2010 when the federal short-term rate decreased from 1 percent to 0 percent.
By Michael CohnMarch 21 -
The number of presidential candidates has been steadily winnowing down in recent weeks as they suffer defeats in the primaries and caucuses, and so too their tax plans have been falling by the wayside.
By Michael CohnMarch 18 -
Syracuse Universitys Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse has updated its Taxpayer Returns online tool with data through filing year 2014.
By Michael CohnMarch 18 -
The Internal Revenue Service has updated its venerable tax guide for this tax season.
By Michael CohnMarch 18 -
The Financial Accounting Standards Board has amended the converged revenue recognition standard it developed with the International Accounting Standards Board to add more guidance about principal versus agent considerations.
By Michael CohnMarch 18 -
Nearly a quarter of Americans think its acceptable to lie to the Internal Revenue Service about under-the-table income.
By Michael CohnMarch 17 -
The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration is pursuing fraudsters posing as IRS agents who call to harass taxpayers about fictitious tax debts, calling them back to warn them about their criminal activity and getting the phone company to shut them down.
By Michael CohnMarch 17 -
The American Institute of CPAs is crying foul over an ad by H&R Block suggesting that many CPAs dont know how to prepare tax returns, but Block is promising to increase its competition with CPAs.
By Michael CohnMarch 17 -
Audit firm policies designed to protect whistleblowers against retaliation for reporting wrongdoing could backfire and make potential tipsters even more fearful of the possible consequences, according to a new academic study.
By Michael CohnMarch 17 -
The House Ways and Means Committee passed a package of three bills Wednesday designed to save money for the federal government, including one that requires taxpayers claiming the Child Tax Credit to provide a Social Security number for the child to prevent undocumented immigrants from qualifying.
By Michael CohnMarch 17 -
Business software giant SAP has been going beyond its traditional enterprise resource planning specialty to expand into areas such as supply chain management, travel and expense management, and the Internet of Things.
By Michael CohnMarch 16 -
The Financial Accounting Standards Board has issued an accounting standards update making it easier for companies to transition to the equity method of accounting.
By Michael CohnMarch 16 -
Mergers and acquisitions are prompting companies to take risky accounting maneuvers, warns a new report from Deloitte.
By Michael CohnMarch 16 -
The Internal Revenue Services audits of business tax returns have declined steeply in recent years, thanks to successive rounds of budget cuts, according to a new analysis.
By Michael CohnMarch 16 -
Clayton & McKervey, Detroit-area CPA and advisory firm, is mourning the loss of its president, Kevin McKervey, who died Sunday at the age of 61.
By Michael CohnMarch 15