Audit & Accounting

Check out the digital edition of the July 2012 issue of Accounting Today.

Recent network memberships, awards, new Web sites and more from accounting firms across the country

Robert P. "Pat" Evans, CPA, CISA, has been named chairman of accountants liability insurer Camico, succeeding Louis J. Barbich, CPA, who served in the position for 26 years, since the company's founding in 1986.

The International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board has released for comment a consultation paper on its future work program for the next two years.

Accounting Today is now accepting candidates for its annual Top 100 Most Influential People in Accounting list.

Sitting at my desk, just over a mile’s walk from Independence Hall, the site where John Hancock famously put his signature on the Declaration of Independence, I can’t help but reflect on why we celebrate the Fourth of July.

The International Federation of Accountants has published 2012 editions of three handbooks from the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board, the International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants and the International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board.

We've opened our Accountant of the Month contest up again

Current techniques used by auditors and taught to accounting students to evaluate financial statement information involve audit sampling and performing analytical procedures such as financial ratio analysis and reasonable tests.

Future firm leaders need a mix of personal guidance and outside support to keep them on track.