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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The Treasury Department has issued a newly revised U.S. Model Income Tax Convention to provide the baseline text it will use when negotiating tax treaties with other countries. It was last updated in 2006.
By Michael CohnFebruary 22 -
Chief audit executives are not so confident about the accuracy of the data their companies rely on to make decisions.
By Michael CohnFebruary 22 -
SS&C merges in Southett & Co.; and Regier Carr & Monroe merges with Cross and Robinson.
By Michael CohnFebruary 22 -
The American Institute of CPAs Accounting and Review Services Committee has issued an interpretation on reviews of financial statements.
By Michael CohnFebruary 22 -
The Internal Revenue Service has been unable to get control of rampant identity theft this tax season, despite high-profile efforts to confront the problem with the help of private industry.
By Michael CohnFebruary 19 -
The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged Marrone Bio Innovations, a pesticide company, and its former chief operating officer, with inflating financial results to meet projections it would double revenues in its first year as a public company.
By Michael CohnFebruary 19 -
CFOs and audit committee chairs are not getting enough insights into corporate risk management from their companies internal audit function, according to a new survey.
By Michael CohnFebruary 19 -
Millennials are more fearful of filing taxes than most Americans, according to a new survey.
By Michael CohnFebruary 18 -
A lawsuit over the Internal Revenue Services fees for Preparer Tax Identification Numbers has received class-action status, according to an attorney who has been trying to eliminate or reduce the PTIN fee for over four years.
By Michael CohnFebruary 18 -
The Internal Revenue Service is being urged to fix a security vulnerability that makes it all too easy to get an Electronic Filing PIN used by tax preparers.
By Michael CohnFebruary 18 -
A federal court in Chicago has ordered Servicios Latinos Inc. to close its nationwide tax preparation business.
By Michael CohnFebruary 18 -
Audit committees need to have oversight of risks to their organizations from third parties such as suppliers, distributors, sales people and service providers, according to a new report.
By Michael CohnFebruary 17 -
International Integrated Reporting Council CEO Paul Druckman plans to step down this year.
By Michael CohnFebruary 17 -
The IRS urged tax professionals in an email Wednesday to verify their Electronic Filing Identification Number activity to safeguard against tax fraud.
By Michael CohnFebruary 17 -
The Internal Revenue Service has begun conducting on-site inspections of tax preparers who continue to have problems with verifying their clients eligibility for claiming the Earned Income Tax Credit, and warned that the penalty has increased.
By Michael CohnFebruary 17 -
Internal audit practitioners are facing new demands for improving cybersecurity and communicating the risks of cyberattacks to their organizations, according to a new report.
By Michael CohnFebruary 17 -
The number of changes in sales and use taxes declined in the fourth quarter of last year, according to a new report.
By Michael CohnFebruary 17 -
The Financial Accounting Standards Board is expected to release its long-awaited lease accounting standard this quarter, and companies are bracing for the impact on their balance sheets.
By Michael CohnFebruary 16 -
The Indiana CPA Societys CPA Center of Excellence is seeing greater demand for online learning in nontraditional areas for accountants, according to a new survey.
By Michael CohnFebruary 16 -
The Internal Revenue Service has filed a tax lien for $4,628,928.55 against Martin Shkreli, the former CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals who hiked the price of a lifesaving medication produced by the company by 5,000 percent.
By Michael CohnFebruary 16