Sarbanes-Oxley
Even though it was passed back in 2002, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, or SOX for short, is still having an impact on auditing and the audit profession, and on accounting firms both big and small.
PCAOB Founding Member Daniel Goelzer Reflects on Board’s History and Future
Daniel Goelzer has been a member of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board since the board was first established under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, and he is completing his second and final term this Friday. Read more »
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Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Costs on the Rise
May 14, 2013Compliance costs for Sarbanes-Oxley and external audit fees both increased last year, according... Read more »
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Study Examines Role of Auditors in Financial Fraud
May 9, 2013A new academic study funded by the Center for Audit Quality scrutinizes the role of the external... Read more »
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SEC Gives Companies an Opening to Compensate Execs with Loans
March 18, 2013The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Corporate Finance has issued new... Read more »
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PCAOB Finds PwC Failed to Fix Auditing Problems
March 7, 2013The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board released previously nonpublic portions of two of... Read more »
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Audit Firms Get Mixed Report Card from PCAOB
February 25, 2013A new report from the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board found that firms that audit 100... Read more »
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SEC Approves PCAOB Budget and Accounting Support Fee
February 13, 2013The Securities and Exchange Commission has unanimously approved the Public Company Accounting... Read more »
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Sarbanes-Oxley Has Failed to Address the Problem of Audit Firm Independence
November 30, 2012A recent report from the federal accounting industry watchdog agency, the Public Company... Read more »
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Tool Helps Audit Committees Evaluate Auditing Firms
October 15, 2012The Center for Audit Quality and several corporate governance organizations and companies have... Read more »
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NetSuite Announces Two-Tier ERP for Oracle
October 4, 2012Cloud-based financials and ERP software provider NetSuite Inc. has released NetSuite Two-Tier ERP... Read more »
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PCAOB Announces Third Auditor Rotation Roundtable
September 17, 2012The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board is heading to Houston to host its third public... Read more »
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Accounting Today September 2012 Digital Edition
September 1, 2012Check out the digital edition of the September 2012 issue of Accounting Today. Read more »
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Manchester United May Take Advantage of JOBS ACT Audit Exemptions
August 10, 2012British soccer team Manchester United, which went public on the New York Stock Exchange on... Read more »
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Tax Strategy: Reacting to the Challenges of the Health Care Law
August 1, 2012Odds have now turned against those hoping that the health care law passed in 2010 will "just go... Read more »
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Financial Auditing 10 Years after the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
July 30, 2012As we acknowledge the 10th anniversary of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, we are once again in a period... Read more »
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Guests at the Meet the Editors dinner at Keens Steakhouse in New York give their assessments of the many opportunities available to accountants for growing their practices.
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Attendees at Accounting Today's Meet the Editors Dinner at Keens Steakhouse in New York discuss the top issues confronting accountants.
Women in Accounting: Breaking the Mold
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A continued conversation with Marcum’s Nanette Lee Miller and Janis Cowhey McDonagh about the obstacles women in the accounting profession face when trying to make their way into leadership positions.
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Tax Season by the Numbers
May 22, 2013
The IRS recently released statistics covering the year to May 10, 2013.
Top 10 Tech Initiatives -- 2013
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The AICPA's annual list of IT priorities for accounting firms.
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These five bad habits can make your confidential information -- and that of your clients -- easy to steal.
