Audit & Accounting

There are five capabilities firms must have to remain successful and future-ready, but too often they think they've already done or tried that.

Payroll: A Major Piece of the Puzzle

Preparers are divided on the value of promoting themselves during their busiest time.

The Internal Revenue Service has seen a proliferation in the past 24 hours of a phishing email seeking to steal tax practitioners’ usernames and passwords for the IRS's online services.

Financial statement audits are helping companies improve their performance, according to a new survey by Deloitte.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has released an accounting standards update that changes the treatment of the amortization of premiums for purchased callable debt securities, shortening the amortization period for the premium to the earliest call date.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has tapped Deloitte partner Sagar S. Teotia as deputy chief accountant in the SEC's Office of the Chief Accountant.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has decided to retain PricewaterhouseCoopers as its official Oscar ballot accounting firm, despite the high-profile snafu last month in which the wrong Best Picture winner was announced.

Internal auditors have a tough job—they have to enter a team and gain full trust and transparency in a limited amount of time.

Recruiting young professionals is hard, but retaining them can be even tougher.