Michael Cohn

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.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board is expected to release its long-awaited lease accounting standard Thursday.

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has agreed on a new framework that will allow all interested countries and jurisdictions to participate in drawing up international tax rules.

A post-implementation review of the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s 1997 standard on earnings per share found the standard generally achieved its purpose.

A pair of Democrats in the House have introduced legislation to reduce the number of corporate tax inversions by clamping down on the strategy of earnings stripping.

A taxpayer has been charged with mailing a threatening communication after he responded to a notice from the Internal Revenue Service about overdue taxes by scribbling a profanity on the letter and mailing it back to the IRS.

The Internal Revenue Service is planning a massive public auction in Overland Park, Kansas, on Thursday of a mind-blowing set of rock & roll memorabilia, including autographed records from Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin, a 10-piece drum set from Anthrax, an autographed guitar from Joe Walsh of the Eagles, Nirvana items, a guitar from Nikki Sixx of Motley Crue, and Stevie Ray Vaughn’s shoes.

Christine Ann Botosan, an accounting professor at the University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business and a former president of the American Accounting Association, has been appointed as the newest member of the Financial Accounting Standards Board.

O’Connor Davies Administration, a subsidiary of New York-based accounting and consulting firm O’Connor Davies LLP, has merged with VBK+CO, a global administration firm headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.

Taxpayers are not doing enough to protect themselves from identity theft-related tax fraud and a majority of them don’t expect it to happen to them, according to a new survey.

Cybercrime is becoming too pervasive for accountants to ignore, according to a new report from the Institute of Management Accountants and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.