Audit & Accounting

The Securities and Exchange Commission has appointed former Public Company Accounting Oversight Board member Kayla Gillan as senior advisor to new Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Mary Schapiro, effective immediately.

When Timothy Geithner unveiled the Treasury Department’s latest financial rescue plan, he probably didn’t expect it to flop so quickly.

Proving generational clashes aren’t only taking place in the states, we found an article in an Australian small business publication quoting a 24-year-old KPMG employee in Melbourne worried about her future for the first time after her two close friends lost their jobs.

There is probably something in humans and in every generation that makes us think that the problems we face are uniquely difficult.

President Barack Obama plans to sign the stimulus bill into law in Denver on Tuesday after Congress passed the massive $787 billion bill.

Parente Randolph has combined practices with Lazar Levine & Felix in a $16 million merger, expanding Parente’s footprint in the Northeast.

Crowe Horwath is expanding to New York City by combining practices with Hays Co. LLP.

President Barack Obama signed the massive $787 billion stimulus bill into law in an effort to boost the economy out of a deep recession.

Consulting conglomerate BearingPoint Inc., which began as the consulting arm of Big Four firm KPMG but has been best by a series of financial problems and large earnings losses over the past several years, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and sealed an agreement with lenders to slash its debt.

Approximately 80 percent of companies are not ready for government or regulatory investigations, according to a new survey.