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The National Association of State Boards of Accountancy is awarding $25,000 in grants to academicians and post-doctoral researchers to research educational issues that affect CPAs, the public accounting professions and the responsibility of state accounting boards to protect the public.
February 9 -
Diamond Foods Inc removed top management after a probe by its audit committee found that the company improperly accounted for payments to walnut growers, sending its shares down 40 percent in after-hours trading.
February 9 -
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has imposed a $2 million civil penalty against Ernst & Young, the largest civil money penalty to date in the PCAOBs 10-year history, and censured the firm for audit failure, while sanctioning four of E&Ys current and former partners.
February 8 -
Professional accountants need to respond to increasing demand from investors for non-financial information, specifically environmental, social and governance disclosures, according to a new report.
February 6 -
The Center for Audit Quality has released its second video featuring hard-boiled external auditor, Ledger Lines, to explain how auditing works.
February 6 -
The Securities and Exchange Commission has named Jeanette M. Franzel, a managing director of the Government Accountability Office, as a member of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.
February 3 -
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Financial Accounting Standards Board chair Leslie Seidman provides an update on the progress FASB is making on converging U.S. GAAP with IFRS and the SEC's delayed decision on incorporating IFRS in the U.S. financial reporting system in an interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Bill Carlino.
February 1
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