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.
-
The Financial Accounting Standards Board decided to add several projects to its technical agenda.
May 14 -
The Internal Revenue Service established a program to allow corporate taxpayers to request rulings on certain issues.
May 13 -
The IRS provided more details about the settlements it's offering for a limited time in syndicated conservation easement and historic preservation claims.
May 13 -
The median fraud loss per case in the ACFE study was $104,000, but the average loss per case was $1,457,000, while 20% had losses of more than $1 million.
May 12 -
The Top 100 Firm acquired a Miami-based firm that specializes in international tax consulting, estate and trust matters, and tax planning.
May 12 -
Tax delinquency is increasing among federal government employees as well as retirees, according to a new report.
May 11 -
Internal auditors are facing a heightened risk of fraud at organizations as schemes change and internal controls weaken over time, according to a new report.
May 11 -
The American Institute of CPAs wants more information on a provision of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act imposing an excise tax on tax-exempt organizations.
May 11 -
The Governmental Accounting Standards Board added several items to its research agenda, but decided against adding a project on cybersecurity disclosures.
May 8 -
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics report surpassed economists' expectations, as the unemployment rate remained unchanged at 4.3%.
May 8 -
Officials discussed the SEC's proposal for a semi-annual reporting option along with new accounting standards at a Baruch College conference.
May 7 -
The Internal Revenue Service plans to offer settlements in syndicated conservation easement cases, but only for a limited time, as it unveils an updated website.
May 6 -
Small businesses with less than 50 employees continued to add jobs last month despite the growth in gas prices, according to a report from Paychex.
May 6 -
Overall job gains came despite despite losses in the professional and business services sector, while annual pay grew 4.4% year over year.
May 6 -
The department's final regulations on which types of professional degree programs can receive loans of up to $200,000 ruled out the accounting profession.
May 6 -
The Securities and Exchange Commission is proposing to allow public companies to report twice a year at the urging of President Trump.
May 5 -
CFO salaries have surged at the biggest companies in the U.S., but the job has become one of the least secure in the executive ranks, according to a new study.
May 5 -
The American Institute of CPAs asked the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to leverage its stablecoin reporting criteria when regulating the market.
May 5 -
The Internal Revenue Service sometimes backdated tax penalty approvals in at least seven cases involving syndicated conservation easements, according to a new report.
May 5 -
Accounting firms are seeing an increase in scams involving the notices the IRS is sending to taxpayers when they don't provide their direct deposit information.
May 4
