IRS Warns Tax Pros about New Phishing Scheme

WASHINGTON, D.C. (AUGUST 11, 2016) BY MICHAEL COHN The Internal Revenue Service is sounding the alarm about a new scheme in which scammers send emails purporting to come from tax software companies, instead fooling tax preparers into clicking on a link that will load malware on their computers. The email urges recipients to click on […]

5 Phrases Established Leaders Should Never Say Again – Journal of Accountancy

Try these alternative approaches to better communicate with your best young talent. By Jennifer Wilson August 1, 2016 Today’s up-and-coming leaders have many career options, and their phones, emails, and LinkedIn accounts are being “hit up” every day by recruiters and others who are interested in potentially employing them. That’s why established leaders committed to […]

Accounting Today: Treasury Proposes to End Strategy for Estate and Gift Taxes

WASHINGTON, D.C. (AUGUST 3, 2016) BY MICHAEL COHN The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service have issued proposed regulations that would eliminate a tax-planning strategy for minimizing estate and gift taxes. The proposed regulations concern the valuation of interests in corporations and partnerships for estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer tax purposes. They involve the […]

117 No-Brainer Ways to Attract New Clients

FREE: 117 No-Brainer Ways to Attract New Clients After seeing this, 9 in 10 accountants put at least one of these strategies to work in their practice. FREE INSTANT DOWNLOAD: 117 No-Brainer Ways to Attract New Clients (PDF, 28 pages) by Rick Telberg I call these “no-brainers” because, although they require some thought and effort, […]

Accounting Today: Is This the ‘End of Accounting’? Maybe So

The standard GAAP accounting measures are less and less useful to investors, according to a new book with the provocative title, “The End of Accounting.” by Michael Cohn The book, by New York University accounting and finance professor Baruch Lev and SUNY Buffalo accounting professor Feng Gu, is entertainingly written and makes some powerful arguments, backed […]