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CohnReznick CEO Frank Longobardi discusses how his firm has grown since the merger between J.H. Cohn and the Reznick Group over three years ago, how the transition went, and his plans for future mergers.

I met someone last week and asked how she was doing with her accountant. She said everything was fine, but reduced the three interim quarterly visits to once every four months.

The Internal Revenue Service has extended its hold on certain tax refunds for returns filed by nonresident aliens and other foreign taxpayers on Form 1040NR beyond the usual 180-day limit in order to give extra scrutiny to the refund claims, leaving many undocumented immigrant workers waiting up to 360 days to get the tax refunds they filed this year.

Rager, Lehman & Houck, P.C., a regional accounting firm with offices in Pennsylvania and Maryland, has merged in Dallavalle & Co. P.A., a firm in Frederick, Md., effective Nov. 30, 2015.

CliftonLarsonAllen has announced its fourth merger since last week, combining with Accounting Management Solutions.

CPA.com and Vertex SMB announced the launch of a new cloud-based program providing tools and training for CPAs to create or expand a sales and use tax compliance and advisory practice in their firms.

The Private Company Council is calling for the removal of the effective dates of four accounting standards updates.

Xero unveiled the new feature Search for Xero, which improves the workflow and experience for customers with the ability to search across the cloud accounting software’s entire platform and all of a business’ financial records.

Japan’s Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission recommended fining Toshiba Corp. about 7.37 billion yen ($60 million) for falsifying earnings, the largest financial penalty ever sought by the watchdog.

Some of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

Helping clients make minimum distributions go further

Litigation against accounting firms appears to have subsided for now, according to one legal expert, but is showing signs of reviving as the Securities and Exchange Commission turns its attention back to accounting and audit enforcement cases.

Sage announced the company’s 2015 fiscal year results, reporting organic revenue growth of 6 percent globally and nearly 4 percent in North America, increasing organic recurring revenue by 9 percent over last year.

Victims of the severe storms and flooding in October in parts of Texas may qualify for tax relief from the IRS.

Congress has passed highway-funding legislation that includes two tax provisions that would allow the State Department to revoke the passports of long-term tax delinquents who owe more than $50,000 in tax debts and revive a program requiring the IRS to hire private debt collection agencies.

As 2015 comes to a close, taxpayers are once again facing uncertainty as Congress has yet to act on a host of important provisions that expired at the end of 2014.

A roundup of recent personnel announcements from accounting firms and companies across the country.

A roundup of recent announcements from accounting firms and companies across the country.

The Internal Revenue Service is letting former students of a now-defunct for-profit college chain, Corinthian Colleges, to avoid including their forgiven student loan debts within gross income.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that employers added a robust 211,000 jobs last month, beating analyst expectations and increasing the odds of the Federal Reserve raising interest rates.