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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Hackers who broke into Sony Pictures network and stole movies that they uploaded to the Internet have also uploaded a spreadsheet from a former Deloitte employee containing salary information on more than 30,000 employees at Deloitte.
By Michael CohnDecember 3 -
Accounting firm Marcum LLP has released its annual Year-End Tax Guide for the national accounting and advisory firms clients and others.
By Michael CohnDecember 3 -
Baker Tilly Virchow Krause has elected Alan Whitman to serve as CEO upon the completion of Timothy Christens term in June 2016.
By Michael CohnDecember 3 -
The American Institute of CPAs Employee Benefit Plan Audit Quality Center has released an advisory document on the importance of hiring a quality auditor to perform employee benefit plan financial statement audits, along information to help select a quality auditor.
By Michael CohnDecember 3 -
The private sector added 208,000 jobs from October to November, according to payroll giant ADP, reflecting steady growth in the economy.
By Michael CohnDecember 3 -
A Los Angeles tax attorney has received more than 6,500 pages from the Internal Revenue Service on the agencys Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program and how it trains its agents.
By Michael CohnDecember 2 -
Online audit confirmation provider Confirmation.com said Tuesday it has acquired LegalConfirm, a Maryland-based provider of electronic legal confirmations.
By Michael CohnDecember 2 -
The International Accounting Standards Board has launched a new program in tandem with some of the largest financial firms in a bid to elicit closer ties with investors and investment firms.
By Michael CohnDecember 2 -
Prompter disclosure of corporate audit fees would help investors, according to a new study that found sudden increases in audit fees may be a sign of trouble at companies.
By Michael CohnDecember 2 -
The New York State Department of Taxation and Finance has launched a continuing education program as part of the states efforts to regulate tax preparers.
By Michael CohnDecember 2 -
The Internal Revenue Service needs to improve the security of the health care information submitted by health insurance providers and pharmaceutical makers and importers on information returns, according to a new government report.
By Michael CohnDecember 2 -
Crowe Horwath LLP has introduced the Crowe International Tax Manager, a Web-based automated information gathering tool that helps streamline tax-reporting processes.
By Michael CohnDecember 2 -
The Center for Audit Quality and Audit Analytics teamed up on an analysis of 2014 audit committee disclosures in proxy statements to assess the effectiveness of the disclosures by public companies of their relationships with auditors and found that many public companies are suffering from disclosure overload.
By Michael CohnDecember 2 -
Tomorrow happens to be Giving Tuesday, a global day dedicated to giving back, and a pair of CPAs have some advice for those who are planning their end-of-year charitable giving.
By Michael CohnDecember 1 -
The Center for Audit Quality has issued a request for proposals to fund independent academic research on auditing-related topics.
By Michael CohnDecember 1 -
Tax benefits for individuals and small businesses that expired in 2013 could have an impact on as many as one in six taxpayers, according to a new analysis.
By Michael CohnDecember 1 -
BDO said Monday that its network of member firms around the world achieved $7.02 billion in revenue for the fiscal year ended Sept. 30, 2014, an increase of 8.8 percent from last year.
By Michael CohnDecember 1 -
The Internal Revenue Service needs to take action to resolve millions of dollars in so-called frozen credit accounts that are effectively in a state of limbo, preventing some taxpayers from receiving their tax refunds, according to a new government report.
By Michael CohnNovember 26 -
Two of the Big Four accounting firms are teaming up with technology companies to see how technology can be used to encourage more companies to do integrated reporting.
By Michael CohnNovember 26 -
The International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants has proposed tougher rules to discourage accountants from providing misleading financial information about businesses.
By Michael CohnNovember 25