Audit & Accounting

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Experts highlight tech savviness and strong communication as key skills for early-career accountants.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board decided to pursue targeted improvements to its rules for accounting for and disclosing software costs, instead of a single overarching model.

With the IRS continuing to launch promoter audits, it is important that anyone subject to such an audit consider a few strategic issues.

Grifols SA shares dropped as investors evaluated a regulatory review of the Spanish bio-science company's financial reports, which found "relevant deficiencies" but no major accounting mistakes.

Markus Jooste allegedly took his own life after being notified of arrest warrants over an accounting scandal.

Chinese authorities are ramping up pressure on the global accounting giant that audited a slew of developers before the sector's meltdown.

Businesses will get help determining whether profits interest and similar awards should be accounted for as share-based payment arrangements.

The modern chief financial officer is increasingly tasked with risk management, including identifying and mitigating various risks such as cyberthreats and regulatory compliance issues.

A former employee of U.K. tech mogul Mike Lynch's Autonomy Corp. told jurors at his U.S. criminal trial that she and one of her higher-ups were both fired after flagging concerns about accounting irregularities.