Audit & Accounting

Accounting firm Bush, Ramlow & Shore is joining Firm Foundation, a recently established association for CPA firms that have approximately 10 to 30 full-time employees.

Japanese GAAP is moving closer to International Financial Reporting Standards under an agreement that will accelerate the process.

Trintech Group has updated its ReconNet reconciliation and account-balancing software with enhanced workflow features.

Large companies in the United States are getting better at managing potentially critical business risks, according to a new study.

Longstanding weaknesses in the financial systems of government agencies pose a "formidable challenge," according to a report released by the Government Accountability Office.

The remaining five defendants in the KPMG tax shelter case are seeking a postponement in the trial until after October.

A majority of financial executives rank data quality and information integrity as the No. 1 priority, according to a new survey.

House lawmakers passed a $16 billion energy tax bill that does away with tax breaks for oil and gas companies and shifts the incentives to alternative energy, despite the threat of a veto from President Bush.

According to a recent press release, a nationwide telephone survey of 1,000 investors conducted for the Center for Audit Quality (CAQ) indicated that 79 percent of those surveyed felt changes brought about by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act bolstered their confidence in financial information presented.

In its second merger of the year, Pittsburgh-based CPA firm Malin, Bergquist and Co. LLP has combined with a firm based in nearby Erie, Pa.: Diefenbach Delio Kearney & DeDionisio.