Michael Cohn

Many of the special personal identification numbers given out by the Internal Revenue Service to protect victims of identity theft may have been stolen, according to a security research site.

Deloitte has acquired the San Francisco advertising agency Heat to build up its Deloitte Digital consulting practice.

The private sector added 214,000 jobs in February, according to payroll giant ADP, in another healthy sign for the economy.

The Internal Revenue Service has followed up on the Obama administration’s opening of diplomatic relations with Cuba by releasing a new revenue ruling that removes certain restrictions on income earned in Cuba.

Bloomberg BNA has published a special report to help accountants prepare for the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s new leasing standard.

The Tax Foundation, a tax policy research organization, has released the latest edition of its annual compendium of data on state taxes.

Small business hiring increased in February, according to payroll giant Paychex, following a gain in January.

The Internal Revenue Service issued an alert Tuesday to payroll and human resources professionals to beware of an emerging phishing email scheme that purports to come from company executives and requests personal information on employees.

For the second consecutive year, ADP is offering accountants and their small-business clients free access to the ADP HR HelpDesk this tax season.

Small and midsize accounting practices in different parts of the world are tempering their expectations for growth, according to a new survey.

Not everyone is hailing the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s new lease accounting standard, including one FASB member who voted against the standard, and a key investor group that has also expressed qualms.

The Internal Revenue Service has released a new guide for auditors in its Large Business and International division outlining a new examination process for big businesses.

The Institute of Management Accountants is putting more emphasis on the need for CFOs to build a greater sense of trust and ethics in their organizations.

The Internal Revenue Service said Friday that an investigation into last year’s data breach in the online Get Transcript application revealed it affected hundreds of thousands more taxpayers than originally believed.

Small business lender Bond Street has rolled out an Accounting Professional Partner Program to help accountants arrange financing for their small business clients, offering discounts and referral fees.

A pair of Democrats have introduced legislation in Congress to expand protections for financial whistleblowers to close some loopholes in the Dodd-Frank Act that have been exploited by some employers.

High tax rates and cybersecurity are among the most pressing concerns of CFOs at technology companies, according to a new survey by BDO USA.

The Equipment Leasing and Finance Association, a trade association that represents companies in the equipment finance sector, had been pushing back against some of the earlier versions of the new lease accounting standard that were proposed in recent years, but it is satisfied with the final standard.

Now that the Financial Accounting Standards Board has released its long-awaited lease accounting standard, companies and their accountants will need to get ready to put their operating leases on the balance sheet.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board issued its long-awaited lease accounting standard Thursday, one of the major convergence projects on which it has collaborated for a decade with the International Accounting Standards Board.