Audit & Accounting

International Integrated Reporting Council CEO Paul Druckman plans to step down this year.

Internal audit practitioners are facing new demands for improving cybersecurity and communicating the risks of cyberattacks to their organizations, according to a new report.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board is expected to release its long-awaited lease accounting standard this quarter, and companies are bracing for the impact on their balance sheets.

Under the Whistleblower Program, the SEC must make monetary awards to eligible individuals who voluntarily provide the Commission with original information about a violation of the federal securities laws that has occurred, is ongoing, or is about to happen.

The International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board has released for comment an exposure draft amending the standards for public sector entities under the cash basis of accounting.

The International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants has released for public comment an updated exposure draft on a standard for addressing how audit firm personnel should act toward an audit or assurance client who has a long association with the firm.

Hans Hoogervorst has been re-appointed as chairman of the International Accounting Standards Board for a second five-year term, but his vice-chairman, Ian Mackintosh will not be seeking a second term.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating whether Boeing Co. properly accounted for the costs and expected sales of two of its best known jetliners, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

The Governmental Accounting Standards Board issued a guidance Thursday to provide clarity about how certain component units incorporated as not-for-profit corporations should be presented in the financial statements of the primary state or local government.

An internal whistleblower could collect up to $24 million of the $80 million penalty imposed by the Securities and Exchange Commission against agribusiness giant Monsanto.