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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Jackson Thornton acquired MST CPAs & Advisors; and HHM CPAs merged in Bizzell, Neff & Galloway.
March 4 -
The IRS is planning to offer its free tax prep system around the clock next week and open it to a larger group of outside testers.
March 1 -
The Securities and Exchange Commission has scheduled a meeting on its long-awaited climate disclosure rule.
March 1 -
The Financial Accounting Foundation is reviewing the effectiveness of the Private Company Council, the group that advises the Financial Accounting Standards Board about the perspective of privately held companies.
February 29 -
The Internal Revenue Service has begun sending notices to high-income taxpayers who haven't been filing tax returns since 2017.
February 29 -
The ability to write off research and development expenses in the first year would be revived if the Senate ever manages to pass the Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act.
February 28 -
Ernst & Young issued a major mea culpa following a failed split of the firm.
February 28 -
The 83 publicly disclosed accounting and auditing enforcement actions in FY 2023 represented the highest number of actions initiated since FY 2019.
February 28 -
The Internal Revenue Service is reopening access Tuesday to its Direct File free online tax prep system after temporarily closing it to new users.
February 27 -
The Internal Revenue Service issued a notice granting an administrative exemption from the electronic filing requirements for the Annual Withholding Tax Return for U.S. Source Income of Foreign Persons.
February 27
