Audit & Accounting

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board is requesting input on future focus areas for standard setting.

The Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network limited access by federal agencies to the information reported by companies amid lawsuits and rule changes.

Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission struck the deal in April to settle investigations into PwC's auditing work for the collapsed developer.

Tax experts and former Internal Revenue Service officials denounced the deal to immunize President Trump, his family and his businesses from tax audits.

Investors mostly favor the continued use of quarterly reporting and rejected the SEC's recent proposal for a semiannual reporting option, according to a survey.

The Electronic Tax Administration Advisory Committee report calls for sustained IRS funding, human-centered design, fraud prevention and preparer regulation.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board posted a proposed accounting standards update to improve interest rate risk hedging and net investment hedging accounting guidance.

Bookkeeping, tax and outsourced CFO services company Pilot announced Meridian, which is said to perform the full scope of bookkeeping and financial reporting.

China Evergrande's liquidators have asked a court to void a shareholder compensation deal a regulator struck with PricewaterhouseCoopers' Hong Kong affiliate.

The firm is offering voluntary redundancy packages to a number of staffers in response to low levels of staff attrition in its audit practice.