Michael Cohn

Wolters Kluwer CCH Small Firm Services has enhanced its Client Accounting Suite with an improved Client Checkbook that streamlines data entry.

The International Federation of Accountants and the donor signatories of MOSAIC (Memorandum of Understanding to Strengthen Accountancy and Improve Collaboration) launched the MOSAIC website last week at the World Congress of Accountants in Rome to support the global accounting profession worldwide.

AccountantsWorld has improved its popular Accounting Power cloud-based software to better accommodate smartphones and tablets.

The Governmental Accounting Standards Board has issued two documents describing its preliminary views on lease accounting for state and local governments, and financial reporting for fiduciary responsibilities, as it solicits public comments on possible standards.

The economy is in a relative holding pattern when it comes to both national and state economic indicators, according to a poll of CPAs in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, while a high proportion of CPAs in New Jersey are recommending that their clients relocate to another state to avoid high estate and inheritance taxes.

The Internal Revenue Service has insufficient controls over the outside employment or business activities of its employees, according to a new government report.

The Net Investment Income Tax, which was included as part of the Affordable Care Act, will be hitting taxpayers and practitioners alike this coming tax season.

Internal auditors are more likely to be satisfied with their jobs and remain with employers who use internal audit as a talent pipeline for management positions, according to a new survey.

The Internal Revenue Service is being urged to bolster its enforcement efforts on multimillion-dollar Individual Retirement Accounts in a new government report that also encourages Congress to provide more direction.

The Financial Accounting Foundation, has named Jan Sylvis, the chief of accounts for the Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration, as vice chair of the Governmental Accounting Standards Board.

The Financial Accounting Foundation, the parent organization of the Financial Accounting Standards Board, has launched a new Web page highlighting the benefits of U.S. GAAP.

A former CPA and tax attorney has been sentenced to 57 months in prison and ordered to pay $2.2 million in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service for stealing the identities of deceased children.

The Center for Audit Quality and the American Institute of CPAs have jointly issued a new member alert reminding audit firms of the independence rules required by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.

Tax professionals who give advice to marijuana businesses in the states where marijuana is legal should not have to suffer adverse consequences because the businesses are illegal under federal law, recommends a new report from a key advisory council for the Internal Revenue Service.

Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., the former vice presidential nominee, has been selected by members of the House Republican Steering Committee to serve as chair of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, Congress's main tax-writing committee.

The Securities and Exchange Commission is taking a fresh look at the question of allowing U.S. public companies to use International Financial Reporting Standards.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board and the Securities and Exchange Commission have issued new guidance on so-called “pushdown accounting,” which occurs when an acquired organization uses the acquirer’s basis of accounting to prepare its financial statements.

An official from the American Institute of CPAs testified at a Senate hearing Tuesday on the need for Congress to pass legislation giving victims of natural disasters automatic access to permanent and timely tax relief.

Crowe Horwath LLP has issued a year-end tax-planning guide with information on income tax deductions, education planning, investing, retirement and estate planning, and tax rates.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board is doing more rigorous cost/benefit analyses of any new changes in accounting standards, and in some cases that is causing some of the divergence from the International Accounting Standards Board, according to FASB officials.