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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Axiom, a provider of legal contract technology, has introduced the Contracts Intelligence Platform for Lease Accounting to help organizations uncover embedded leases that are subject to the new lease accounting standard.
July 16 -
The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board held its first board meeting under its new leadership this week to discuss progress on its provisional standards, with an eye to releasing them in the fall.
July 13 -
KPMG is partnering with analytics provider SAS on helping banks make the transition to the current expected credit loss, or CECL, accounting standard that begins to take effect in January 2020.
July 13 -
The upcoming rules may affect one tactic that some wealthy taxpayers have been using to get around the cap on deducting local property taxes.
July 13 -
The Internal Revenue Service is preparing to send millions of dollars to vets who received disability severance payments starting in 1991.
July 13 -
The bill would allow taxpayers to treat the amounts paid for membership at a fitness facility as medical expenses.
July 12 -
CPAs and EAs are raising objections to the draft version of the Employee’s Withholding Allowance Certificate.
July 12 -
The recent tax overhaul is buoying optimism in the U.S., but not abroad.
July 12 -
The Auditing Standards Board is thinking about relaxing some of the requirements for attest engagements.
July 11 -
The National Association of Enrolled Agents has written a letter to the Internal Revenue Service strongly criticizing the draft version of the new Form W-4, the Employee’s Withholding Allowance Certificate, saying it raises privacy concerns and creates a “substantial risk of underwithholding.”
July 11 -
Two of the oldest minority-controlled accounting firms are joining together.
July 11 -
The site includes special reports, insights and a client letter related to the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling.
July 10 -
The Internal Revenue Service is encouraging practitioners to secure their client data.
July 10 -
Two Utah firms are joining forces, effective July 1.
July 9 -
The Internal Revenue Service did a lot to implement the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, yet its efforts have fallen short, says TIGTA.
July 9 -
Mauldin & Jenkins adds KRT CPAs division; Gordon Advisors merges in Tobias, Vandeputte & Skulsky.
July 9 -
The Missouri-based Top 100 Firm is expanding in New York with its latest addition.
July 9 -
The Internal Revenue Service postponed tax filings and payments for more than 68 million taxpayers affected by the killer storms.
July 6 -
The Internal Revenue Service’s six additional schedules hardly seem to fit onto a postcard.
July 6 -
Chris Geier has been watching what is going on at Deloitte and wondering who the next leader will be.
July 6
