Audit & Accounting

CPA Ireland is absorbing the membership of the Institute of Incorporated Public Accountants as two of Ireland’s largest accounting professional bodies agreed to a permanent collaboration.

The American Institute of CPAs has issued a new guide to help accountants provide assurance on their corporate clients’ environmental information.

The Center for Audit Quality and the Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society are celebrating the 15th anniversary of the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act with a series of videos featuring commentary from several accounting, finance and auditing experts.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board is disciplining Crowe Horwath’s member firm in Hong Kong for refusing to turn over audit work papers.

The automated bookkeeping tool uses AI to pull data from document images, inputting it directly into the cloud-based financial analysis and accounting tool.

The American Institute of CPAs has released a new standard that provides guidance to auditors about their responsibilities when auditing securities exempt from registration under the Securities Act of 1933 and franchise offerings known as exempt offerings.

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act was signed into law on July 30, 2002 and has led to vast changes in the accounting profession, although not necessarily in corporate ethics.