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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Compensation and revenue at small businesses increased this summer, along with the number of hours worked, Intuit reported Tuesday, although employment fell last month.
By Michael CohnSeptember 1 -
Grassi & Co. has merged in Rispoli and Co. CPAs, PC, effective Sept. 1, 2015, increasing Grassis trust and estate services on Long Island.
By Michael CohnSeptember 1 -
CliftonLarsonAllen is merging in the Texas accounting firm Sanford, Baumeister & Frazier, LLP, effective Sept. 1, 2015, bolstering CLAs footprint in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
By Michael CohnSeptember 1 -
Payroll giant Paychex detected a slight slowdown in small business employment growth last month.
By Michael CohnSeptember 1 -
Coming to the TV schedule later this year is a new series about a fraud investigator who finds out that her fiancé is trying to defraud her, and she is determined to turn the tables on him before he devastates her forensic accounting career.
By Michael CohnAugust 31 -
The Internal Revenue Service has proposed regulations changing the amount of the penalties for failing to include information required to be disclosed about reportable transactions.
By Michael CohnAugust 31 -
The Internal Revenue Service did not always follow its own procedures when selling some of the property it seized for unpaid taxes, according to a new report.
By Michael CohnAugust 31 -
The Financial Accounting Standards Board has issued a proposed accounting standards update to clarify the implementation guidance on principal versus agent considerations contained in the new revenue recognition standard.
By Michael CohnAugust 31 -
The Internal Revenue Service is waiving penalties assessed against any college, university or other educational institution for Forms 1098-T that were filed with an incorrect or missing taxpayer identification number.
By Michael CohnAugust 31 -
While accounting scandals in the Netherlands have not been making a whole lot of headlines in the U.S., they have been generating plenty of controversy at home.
By Michael CohnAugust 28 -
The chairmen of Congresss two main tax committees, House Ways and Means Committee chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and Senate Finance Committee chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, have written to Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew saying he should hold off on developing country-by-country reporting regulations for taxation of multinational corporations.
By Michael CohnAugust 28 -
Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting US said it has been selected for the 11th straight year by the Internal Revenue Service to deliver its sales tax rate and taxability tables to help taxpayers across prepare their tax returns.
By Michael CohnAugust 28 -
Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping and payroll services are collectively the most profitable industry in the U.S., according to a new ranking.
By Michael CohnAugust 28 -
Only 10 percent of accounting and finance professionals believe there is someone internally who could easily step in to fill their role if they quit, according to a new survey.
By Michael CohnAugust 28 -
The Senate Appropriations Committee is proposing to increase the length of the Schedule EIC for claiming the Earned Income Tax Credit, requiring taxpayers to include much the same information on self-prepared returns that paid tax preparers are required to ask them on the EITC due diligence checklist.
By Michael CohnAugust 27 -
Paychex has released a list of what it sees as the top regulatory issues of this summer.
By Michael CohnAugust 27 -
The Governmental Accounting Standards Board has published a new authoritative implementation guide that details comprehensive authoritative implementation guidance that has been cleared by the board for state and local governments.
By Michael CohnAugust 27 -
Last year, the percentage of non-audit fees dropped below 10 percent of the total fees paid to audit firms for the first time since Sarbanes-Oxley, according to a new report.
By Michael CohnAugust 27 -
A former Internal Revenue Service employee has been sentenced to two years and one day in prison for his role in an identity theft tax refund fraud scheme.
By Michael CohnAugust 27 -
Financial Executives International has appointed Andrej Suskavcevic as president and CEO of both FEI and the trade groups Financial Executives Research Foundation.
By Michael CohnAugust 27