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 is getting ready for an onslaught of tax returns arriving by Tax Day, though many taxpayers will be eligible for automatic extensions due to natural disasters.
April 12 -
The Chicago-based firm is expanding in Southern California in the third M&A deal it has announced this month.
April 11 -
The Institute of Management Accountants is examining the possibilities of artificial intelligence in the accounting profession while undergoing staff cutbacks.
April 11 -
The two boards both published new strategic plans for the next few years in coordination with each other.
April 11 -
A new report shows that, increasingly, the respondents in Public Company Accounting Oversight Board enforcement actions are firms, rather than individuals.
April 10 -
The new standard represents one of the biggest changes to IFRS in decades.
April 10 -
Crete Professionals Alliance added Reid Tax & Advisory Services; and Financial Independence joined Level Four Financial.
April 10 -
The board imposed its largest-ever penalty of $25 million against KPMG's firm in the Netherlands, in addition to $2 million in fines against Deloitte's firms in Indonesia and the Philippines.
April 10 -
The Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department issued proposed rules for the stock buyback tax for large corporations.
April 9 -
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board voted to propose an extensive set of new reporting requirements to impose on auditing firms.
April 9 -
The free tax program will now import a taxpayer's information from the previous year, as a report finds the program could cost the IRS considerably more than the estimated $249 million per year to maintain.
April 9 -
The Internal Revenue Service urged tax professionals to steer clear of so-called "spearphishing" scams from cybercriminals, including identity thieves posing as new clients.
April 9 -
The Securities and Exchange Commission has temporarily stayed its climate-related disclosure rule amid a rash of lawsuits.
April 8 -
The Internal Revenue Service is making some changes in the way it sends tax transcripts for clients to tax professionals to beef up security.
April 8 -
The Treasury reported increasing usage of the free tax-filing system that they've been pilot testing in a dozen states this tax season.
April 8 -
Crowe plans to add Belt Harris Pechacek; and PKF Smith Cooper acquired BLB Advisory.
April 3 -
Accounting-related class-action lawsuit filings and settlements both increased in 2023, according to a new report, even though the cases took longer to be filed.
April 3 -
It was the first hiring increase so far this year, according to Paychex, though it remained below pre-pandemic levels.
April 3 -
Private sector employers added 184,000 jobs in March as annual pay rose 5.1% year over year, payroll company ADP reported.
April 3 -
Thomson Reuters recently closed its $800 million acquisition of Pagero, a Swedish e-invoicing company, placing a big bet on the future of electronic invoicing amid wider changes in international tax and accounting.
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