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 Sustainability Accounting Standards Board, a nonprofit organization that provides sustainability accounting standards that can be used on a voluntary basis by publicly listed U.S. corporations, has debuted a Data Provider Partner Program to give investors access to information on corporate sustainability performance.
By Michael CohnJuly 20 -
E-signature provider Signix has created an infographic about the Internal Revenue Service and e-signatures.
By Michael CohnJuly 17 -
A new academic study casts doubt on whether efforts to require companies to rotate their audit firms lead to greater professional skepticism on the part of auditors.
By Michael CohnJuly 17 -
Rep. Sander Levin, D-Mich., the ranking Democrat on the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, has introduced legislation to clarify equal treatment for all married couples under the U.S. tax code in response to the Supreme Court's ruling last month allowing same-sex marriage in every state.
By Michael CohnJuly 17 -
Senate Finance Committee chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and ranking Democratic member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said Friday the committee will markup a tax extenders bill next Tuesday.
By Michael CohnJuly 17 -
The ride-sharing app Uber is showing up more than taxis on employee expense reports, according to a new analysis.
By Michael CohnJuly 16 -
The International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board has release its revised International Standards on Auditing to provide more focus on financial statement disclosures.
By Michael CohnJuly 16 -
A coalition of employers and trade associations from a variety of different industries are asking Congress to clarify the rules for determining eligibility for tax credits for health insurance.
By Michael CohnJuly 16 -
Undercover investigators working for the Government Accountability Office were able to receive approximately $30,000 in Advance Premium Tax Credits for health insurance after setting up a dozen fictitious accounts.
By Michael CohnJuly 16 -
XBRL US has begun a public exposure period for rules developed by its Data Quality Committee, which aims to improve the quality of financial filings using the interactive Extensible Business Reporting Language format mandated by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
By Michael CohnJuly 16 -
Sales tax software provider Avalara has partnered with the publisher Wiley to offer a free ebook, Sales & Use Tax Compliance for Dummies.
By Michael CohnJuly 15 -
A new government report urges the Internal Revenue Service to do a better job of educating and notifying taxpayers about provisions of the tax code requiring them to begin taking minimum distributions from their Individual Retirement Arrangements when they reach a certain age, but the IRS responded that it lacks enough money in its budget to do so.
By Michael CohnJuly 15 -
Millennials are seeing gains in wage and employment growth, according to new data from payroll giant ADP that also found significant gains among older workers who delay retirement.
By Michael CohnJuly 15 -
More than 300,000 taxpayers overpaid the Individual Shared Responsibility Payment for health insurance on their tax returns processed through the end of April, according to a new report from the National Taxpayer Advocate.
By Michael CohnJuly 15 -
The U.S., Japan and Europe are being accused of blocking developing countries from participating in efforts to combat international tax evasion.
By Michael CohnJuly 15 -
Optimism about the nations economic outlook among U.S. business leaders rose in the second quarter of the year, according to the Grant Thornton International Business Report.
By Michael CohnJuly 14 -
The conservative advocacy group Judicial Watch released new Department of Justice and Internal Revenue Service documents last week indicating that the IRS gave the FBI 21 computer disks, containing 1.25 million pages of confidential tax returns from 113,000 nonprofit social welfare groups operating under Section 501(c)(4) of the Tax Code.
By Michael CohnJuly 14 -
The United Nations Development Program and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development have launched a new global initiative to help developing countries bolster their domestic revenues by strengthening their tax audit capacities.
By Michael CohnJuly 14 -
The Big Four firms collectively account for nearly two-thirds of the global risk consulting market and could expand that footprint if they acquire more cybersecurity firms, suggests a new report.
By Michael CohnJuly 14 -
Mitchell & Titus, the largest minority-owned accounting firm in the U.S., has decided to end its membership in the Ernst & Young Global network after more than eight years.
By Michael CohnJuly 14