Audit & Accounting

SourceMedia, Accounting Today’s publisher and a media company serving the financial services industry, has launched a professional education and training business to provide digital training to professionals and companies.

IMGCAP(1)]Check out the digital edition of the Sept. 27-Oct. 10, 2010 issue of Accounting Today.

During my search for a job while in college, I was offered two posts - a part-time hockey referee or a job as a waiter at a now-defunct budget steakhouse chain.

The Securities and Exchange Commission voted unanimously on Friday to propose requiring public companies to disclose more information to investors about their short-term borrowing arrangements.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board is asking for input on how to improve the accounting for insurance contracts in financial reports through a new discussion paper.

Financial Accounting Standards Board technical director Russell G. Golden has been appointed a member of the board, filling one of three vacancies on the newly expanded panel.

We asked candidates for our Top 100 Most InfluentialPeople in Accounting the following question:

The Financial Accounting Standards Board intends to host two public roundtable meetings to solicit input on private company accounting and reporting issues.

IMGCAP(1)]Check out the digital edition of the Sept. 13 issue of Accounting Today.

London - The Prince's Accounting for Sustainability Project has teamed with the Global Reporting Initiative to form the International Integrated Reporting Committee, with the goal of creating a globally accepted framework for sustainability accounting to bring together financial, environmental, social and governance information in a clear, concise, consistent and comparable format. The committee will try to develop more comprehensive and comprehensible information about an organization's total performance, on a prospective and a retrospective basis.