Michael Cohn

The Top 25 Firm has acquired a Regional Leader headquartered in Minneapolis, effective Jan. 1, 2026.

The Top 50 Firm has expanded into South Carolina with its latest M&A deal.

The Top 25 Firm based in New York has merged in Bowman & Company, with three offices in New Jersey and a specialty in municipal and governmental accounting.

The bipartisan bill aligns the deadline for claiming prior-year refunds or credits with the extended filing period granted to taxpayers hit by natural disasters.

RRBB, a Regional Leader based in Somerset, New Jersey, has added Kleespies, Horwitz & Associates, based in Clark, New Jersey, and introduced Superior Payroll.

Rehmann CEO Stacie Kwaiser is planning for the New Year as the Top 50 Firm deals with the many changes from the past year.

The institute has proposed a set of revisions to its Code of Professional Conduct regarding the structures set up by firms with private equity investment.

Agents with the Internal Revenue Service's Criminal Investigation unit reportedly helped track down the shooter who terrorized Brown University and MIT.

Trump administration officials are confidently forecasting that Americans will see the largest refunds next filing season thanks to the tax cuts in the OBBBA.

The trustees overseeing the Financial Accounting Foundation have named three new members of the Governmental Accounting Standards Advisory Council.

Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Pan African Federation of Accountants.

The overhaul at the board continues as William Ryan succeeds Robert Rice, who is retiring at the end of the year.

Sorren, based in Meridian, Idaho, has added Casey Neilon, an accounting consultancy in Nevada, to its national network.

Congress has passed a bill giving taxpayers who have been affected by natural disasters some extra time to file a claim for a tax credit or refund.

A federal appeals court reversed a lower court decision involving the Corporate Transparency Act, finding it to be constitutional, although it remains on hold.

The open enrollment season for employee benefits is underway at many companies, and employees may be seeing changes this year thanks to the SECURE 2.0 Act.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has reached a deal with the Cyprus Public Audit Oversight Board.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board released an accounting standards update to improve its codification of standards on different topics.

The Governmental Accounting Standards Board released a new standard to improve the financial reporting for state and local governments on subsequent events.

Nine organizations wrote to the Department of Education expressing opposition to rules excluding accounting from recognition as a professional degree program.