Audit & Accounting

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has added the topic of business combinations to its accounting standards codification, which aims to organize the thousands of U.S. accounting pronouncements issued by multiple standard-setters into a single authoritative source.

The Securities and Exchange Commission is soliciting comments on a new auditing standard for evaluating the consistency of financial statements.

SEC Chairman Christopher Cox hailed an appeals court decision that said the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board is constitutional.

PricewaterhouseCoopers plans to reorganize its international network of member accounting firms, splitting them into three major geographic clusters.

The Internal Revenue Service has released its revised instructions for the redesigned Form 990 that tax-exempt organizations must submit.

Ascend, the national Asian-American society of accountants, held its first major conference in New York this week.

Deloitte & Touche has signed a memorandum of understanding with Canadian accounting firm Scott Rankin & Gardner for a potential merger.

The American Institute of CPAs is helping to promote a movie on the financial challenges facing the U.S. today.

Accounting firm Citrin Cooperman has appointed longtime partner F. Wayne Holton CEO.

The Securities and Exchange Commission unveiled its next-generation system for online financial filings, IDEA, the successor to its EDGAR database.