Michael Cohn

Indiana has become the first state to allow competency-based education to qualify for renewal of a CPA license.

Ernst & Young has agreed to pay $4 million to settle charges brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission accusing the firm of violating auditor independence rules by lobbying congressional staff on behalf of two auditing clients.

The nonpartisan Tax Foundation research group has released a primer on the Marketplace Fairness Act, the legislation that proposes to establish federal law governing sales taxes on online purchases.

Three-quarters of Americans are worried about having enough money for retirement, according to a new survey that found three out of 10 Americans are not saving for later years.

ACL has introduced an add-in tool for Microsoft Excel aimed at auditors and compliance professionals.

An Internal Revenue Service employee has been suspended for 100 days without pay for urging taxpayers to re-elect President Obama in 2012.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has begun sending letters to public companies that fail to file their financials with all the necessary data using Extensible Business Reporting Language technology.

The real estate investment trust Ventas has dismissed Ernst & Young as its auditor after E&Y determined that it lacked independence because of an “inappropriate personal relationship” between an E&Y partner and Ventas’s former chief accounting officer and controller.

The Internal Revenue Service is being urged to modernize the process of filing amended tax returns in a new government report that estimates the IRS could be losing billions of dollars from erroneous tax refunds claimed on amended tax returns.

Financial Executives International has elected a new slate of executive officers and members of the board of directors for the fiscal year, effective July 1.

The Institute of Management Accountants and the American Accounting Association’s Management Accounting Section have released a new framework intended to broaden the scope of accounting education.

The Institute of Internal Auditors has elected PricewaterhouseCoopers partner Anton van Wyk, a native of South Africa, as chairman of the IIA’s 2014-2015 Global Board of Directors.

Actor Sir Michael Caine, singers George Michael, Kate Melua and Gary Barlow, and four members of the Arctic Monkeys rock band are among those accused of participating in a massive tax shelter scheme in the United Kingdom.

Wholesale adoption in the U.S. of International Financial Reporting Standards seems unlikely to occur in the near future as the Financial Accounting Standards Board and the International Accounting Standards Board continue to move away from full convergence of their standards, according to a Fitch Ratings report.

The National Federation of Independent Business reported Tuesday a decline in optimism among small business owners in June after a promising three-month run.

Protiviti has released the 10th anniversary edition of its Internal Auditing around the World publication, examining the pressing issues, new challenges and evolution of internal audit that affect global companies.

The Institute of Internal Auditors has introduced a new Qualification in Internal Audit Leadership program to identify and nurture the internal audit profession’s next generation of leaders.

The Association for Accounting Marketing has announced its board of directors and president for the term beginning July 1.

The Georgia Society of CPAs has elected Terry Parker to serve as the 2014-2015 chair of the GSCPA, and Lowell Mooney to serve as chair-elect, leading a membership of nearly 14,000 CPAs across the state of Georgia.

Better management of correspondence audits by the Internal Revenue Service could improve tax compliance and reduce the burden on taxpayers, according to a new government report.