Michael Cohn

Former Internal Revenue Service commissioner Mark Everson has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission objecting to being left out entirely of Fox News’s Republican presidential debate.

Leaders of the Senate Finance Committee have released a bipartisan investigative report on the scandal involving the extra scrutiny the Internal Revenue Service’s gave to applications for tax-exempt status from political groups, finding evidence of mismanagement at the agency.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has adopted a final rule requiring public companies to disclose the ratio of the compensation of their CEOs to the median compensation of their employees.

The global economy is facing a period of volatility and major readjustments, according to a new survey of accountants around the world from the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and the Institute of Management Accountants.

Small businesses experienced a slowdown in employment growth in July, compared to previous months, according to Intuit, although employees were paid slightly more and worked additional hours.

Private sector employers added 185,000 jobs last month, according to payroll giant ADP, indicating some slackening in job growth, particularly in the manufacturing and energy industries.

Nonprofit organizations make accounting errors at a relatively high rate, in part because they try to avoid devoting a high percentage of their funding to administrative costs, according to a new study.

TaxBuzz, an online directory of tax professionals, has released a new service to help its users verify their providers' identity and trustworthiness.

The New York State Society of CPAs has asked the Internal Revenue Service to make some long-overdue revisions in Form 990-PF, the tax form used by private foundations.

Thomson Reuters has introduced the Checkpoint Learning Forensic Accounting Certificate Program for CPAs and other accounting and audit professionals to help them build competencies in forensic investigation, related process, and litigation support while earning continuing professional education credits.

Small business employment growth has remained relatively stable for the second month in a row, according to payroll service giant Paychex.

The International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board has released an exposure draft proposing changes to how auditors should handle engagements reporting on summary financial statements.

In an age of stepped-up regulation and enforcement, accountants and their clients need to know how to cope with a variety of different agencies, including the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has issued a three-part accounting standards update for employee benefit plans accounting as part of its efforts to simplify the accounting rules.

Business executives are giving mixed predictions on when and if tax reform will finally happen in Washington, in a new survey.

The Internal Revenue Service’s Collection division is piloting an initiative to make early contact with employers who may be falling behind in their payroll taxes.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board is beginning to hear from not-for-profit organizations and their accountants about the far-reaching changes it has proposed in reporting by nonprofits, and finding there are some disagreements, even among FASB’s own leaders.

A short-term highway-funding bill passed by the Senate on Thursday contains a number of tax-related provisions, including changing the due dates for partnership and C corporation tax returns.

The Internal Revenue Service is providing a safe harbor for contracts on services that are performed on a regular basis such as janitorial and landscape maintenance and software support.

Seventeen states will soon offer sales tax holidays where state sales tax charges are temporarily dropped on back-to-school items and other qualifying products.