Michael Cohn

CBIZ CEO Steven L. Gerard said he plans to retire as CEO of the professional services firm in March 2016, and will be succeeded by president and COO Jerome P. Grisko Jr.

Crowe Horwath LLP CEO Charles Allen will be co-chairman of the global accounting firm network of which it is the main member in the U.S., Crowe Horwath International.

The Internal Revenue Service announced the annual inflation adjustments for tax year 2015 for more than 40 tax provisions, including the tax rate schedules, and other tax changes.

The Institute of Internal Auditors has introduced an online tool to help its members develop a personalized career development plan.

Hedge funds and portfolio managers often have sophisticated needs when it comes to dealing with capital gains taxes and keeping them to a minimum, and one of the wrinkles they need to deal with is a constructive sale.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has approved the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board’s new standard on auditing related party transactions and significant unusual transactions.

Nearly 60 percent of initial public offerings in 2011, 2012 and 2013 on the U.S. markets used at least one non-GAAP financial measure in their financial statements, according to a new study by PricewaterhouseCoopers.

A former Internal Revenue Service employee received a prison sentence for leading a conspiracy to steal taxpayers’ identifying information in order to receive fraudulent tax refunds.

Accounting firms Elliott Davis and Decosimo said Wednesday they plan to merge at the beginning of the year to create one of the largest regional firms in the U.S.

The Internal Revenue Service issued two items of guidance Wednesday in response to the need for charitable and other relief due to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

The Internal Revenue Service is not providing personal identity numbers to all taxpayers who are the victims of tax-related identity theft, according to a new government report.

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service by the American Institute of CPAs over its new program offering voluntary education and testing of non-CPA tax preparers.

Citrin Cooperman has named a pair of co-managing partners to handle the operations at its New York City headquarters, Patricia Cummings and Michael DeVito.

Executives with Wolters Kluwer CCH described a series of improvements to their tax, accounting and auditing software products at the CCH Connections user conference in Orlando on Monday, including enhancements to leverage the power of Google and other popular search engines.

The Internal Revenue Service should improve the way it performs final testing of its computer systems prior to tax season to make sure they are working properly, according to a new government report.

The best prepared accounting firms manage to be more productive and profitable, according to a new study by Wolters Kluwer CCH.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has sanctioned a Florida-based auditor for violating federal laws and regulations that require lead audit partners to periodically rotate off their audit engagements with a publicly traded company in order to preserve the integrity of the financial reporting process.

A CPA from Dayton, Ohio, was sentenced to serve over a year in prison and a year of supervised release for helping the owners of the Cadillac Ranch restaurant chain evade taxes.

The Financial Accounting Foundation, the parent organization of the Financial Accounting Standards Board, has appointed banking executive Mary P. Crotty to the newly created position of chief operating officer.

A federal judge has dismissed a pair of lawsuits against the Internal Revenue Service by over 40 conservative groups over the IRS’s handling of their applications for tax-exempt status.