Michael Cohn

The Internal Revenue Service has reportedly filed a tax lien against actress, singer and model Vanessa Williams for $369,249 in unpaid taxes dating back to 2011.

The Indiana CPA Society's recently established CPA Center of Excellence has published a new book on “CPA Excellence.”

One of the big trends this summer has been the ALS Association’s remarkable success with its “ice bucket challenge,” but the very success of the campaign could pose a challenge of its own to the ALS Association and other charities.

American Express is showing off some innovative technologies for tennis fans at the U.S. Open in Queens, N.Y., that might provide some inspiration for financial professionals.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has issued a new accounting standards update to provide guidance on disclosing uncertainties about a business’s ability to continue as a going concern, while further distancing U.S. GAAP from International Financial Reporting Standards.

The Center for Audit Quality has created an online document to help auditors with the decision-making process so they can form auditing and accounting judgments with the appropriate professional skepticism.

Thomson Reuters has begun offering a new Checkpoint Learning Tax Research Certificate Program for tax professionals.

Large, privately held companies in the United States are outpacing their publicly traded counterparts in two key performance metrics, sales growth and profitability, according to an analysis of financial-statement information from 2010 to 2014 by the financial information company Sageworks.

Small businesses with one to 10 employees saw a month-over-month increase in hiring of one-tenth of a percent this month, according to the payroll provider SurePayroll.

The Internal Revenue Service recovered $576 million in erroneously issued tax refunds last year thanks to outside tips provided by financial institutions and other sources such as tax preparers, more than double the amount from three years ago.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has named James Schnurr, a former vice chairman at Deloitte, as chief accountant.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has added five more projects to its agenda for simplifying accounting standards, including short-term projects related to debt and tax accounting.

In case you haven’t heard, National Grandparents Day is just around the corner, on September 7.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has released a new report showing that auditors of brokers and dealers who were inspected last year continued to have a high number of problems with independence and audit deficiencies.

The Internal Revenue Service has denied tax-exempt status to a group that claimed it was dedicated to protecting the human rights of defenseless victims of involuntary microwave and mind control attacks.

The International Accounting Education Standards Board has issued a new plan to support the adoption and implementation of the recently revised International Education Standards for accountants.

The International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants has proposed to strengthen the auditor independence standards in the ethics code to address long associations with audit and assurance clients.

Deloite LLP has named Frank S. Friedman as the firm's new CEO, succeeding Joe Echevarria, who is retiring to focus on public service.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued new rules for changing a method of accounting for retail inventory.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued a new one-page publication with information about exemptions to the health coverage requirements of the Affordable Care Act.