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Accounting Today delivers news, rankings, thought leadership, and analysis for accounting professionals so they can navigate change in standards, firm strategy, technology adoption, talent, and the overall business environment.
Accounting professionals are facing rapid transformation, including shifting professional standards, demographic change, technology disruption, practice consolidation, and changing expectations for advisory services. Our coverage surfaces these strategic dynamics and provides insights and analysis for firms, leaders, and the accounting profession.
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Mergers and acquisitions are prompting companies to take risky accounting maneuvers, warns a new report from Deloitte.
March 16 -
The Financial Accounting Standards Boards Emerging Issues Task Force has issued an accounting standards update for contingent put and call options in debt instruments.
March 14 -
The Financial Accounting Standards Boards Emerging Issues Task Force has issued an accounting standards update to address the extinguishment of liabilities and recognition of breakage for prepaid stored-value products, such as gift cards, telephone cards and travelers checks.
March 11 -
The Financial Accounting Standards Boards Emerging Issues Task Force has issued an accounting standards update on the effect of derivative contract novations on existing hedge accounting relationships.
March 11 -
The Securities and Exchange Commission has accepted the Financial Accounting Standards Boards 2016 GAAP Financial Reporting Taxonomy.
March 8 -
The Financial Accounting Standards Board has issued an accounting standards update for private companies that opt to apply private company accounting alternatives, removing the effective dates for four of the alternatives.
March 7 -
The six largest audit firm networks have agreed with international audit regulators on a new initiative to achieve a measurable reduction in audit deficiency findings by 2019.
March 7
