Audit & Accounting

Top 10 Firm BDO USA added 10 new clients at the end of 2025, almost all from its November acquisition of Top 100 Firm Horne.

Building an advisory practice in your accounting firm means culling your client list — but that's just the start.

The Securities and Exchange Commission is making extensive changes in auditing and accounting as it continues to deregulate under the Trump administration.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board's recent income tax disclosure standard is revealing that many prominent U.S. multinationals are paying far more corporate taxes in other countries than at home, according to a new analysis.

Federal attention to foreign influence in higher education has intensified.

A Japanese accounting group is seeking to ease rules on how life insurers book paper losses on government bonds, a move that would provide a relief for the major holders of the nation's debt.

AI-enabled fraud has become so sophisticated more than one-third of senior internal audit leaders aren't even sure whether or not their organizations have been the targets of any attempts.

The vast majority of professional auditors have expressed concern that AI tools, while helpful, risk undermining professional judgment and eroding the trust people have in the profession entirely.

The IRS can broaden the audit, and, in the wrong fact pattern, frame the issue as deliberate concealment rather than poor recordkeeping.

The Maryland Association of CPAs celebrated its 125th anniversary on Feb. 12, 2026.