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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The Internal Revenue Service has been making efforts to reduce the overall amount of space it rents, but it nevertheless has lots of unnecessary space that it's paying hundreds of millions of dollars for every year.
June 11 -
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board levied sanctions and $150,000 in penalties against L&L CPAs and three of its auditors.
June 10 -
CLA Global Limited has appointed Paul English as CEO, replacing Sancho Simmonds and Joseph Kask.
June 10 -
Strategic tax leaders worry the election will lead to changes to Inflation Reduction Act renewable energy credits, while tax tacticians worry about changes to federal corporate tax rates.
June 10 -
While the Internal Revenue Service has managed to reduce its backlog of unprocessed tax returns since the pandemic, one area where it's losing ground is in processing all the documentation for tax adjustments.
June 7 -
The amount of time that identity theft victims have to wait for tax refunds has increased as the Internal Revenue Service has shifted priorities, with some waiting nearly two years.
June 7 -
The jobs report blew past expectations, although the unemployment rate ticked up to 4%.
June 7 -
Officials discussed some of the latest accounting standards and advice for auditing firms during a USC and FEI conference.
June 6 -
The practice aid provides information on auditing the valuation of cryptoassets and audit procedures surrounding their existence, rights and obligations.
June 6 -
The Internal Revenue Service is turning to artificial intelligence to help select tax returns to audit and narrow the tax gap, but it needs to use this new technology consistently and transparently, according to a new government report.
June 5
