Audit & Accounting

Small-business owners and industry representatives told a House committee that the tax breaks in the stimulus package passed by Congress in February have helped some companies.

The Senate has voted unanimously to reauthorize the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs for eight more years and make several changes to the programs that provide monetary awards to small businesses.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has released reports on the audit deficiencies that its inspectors found last year at BDO Seidman and Grant Thornton.

The International Accounting Standards Board has proposed changing the accounting standards for measuring and classifying financial instruments in response to concerns raised by the financial crisis.

The Center for Audit Quality’s Research Advisory Board has chosen five auditing-related academic research projects to fund.

Web 2.0 technologies like XML, web services and social networking have taken off like wildfire and have caught many accounting professionals off-guard.

Accounting firm Crowe Horwath LLP has advice on the top 10 ways that corporations can reduce occupational fraud.

Turmoil in the financial markets has negated the value of fair value accounting, according to more than half the respondents to a new survey.

IMGCAP(1)] Malik, a first-year African-American associate assignedto a major accounting firm’s California office, frets that he has blownhis one chance to make a good first impression:

The International Federation of Accountants and the International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants have issued a revised Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants that strengthens the independence requirements of auditors.