Audit & Accounting

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has endorsed a consensus recommendation from the Private Company Council to remove the effective dates for four standards.

The Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board has released an exposure draft of a proposed Statement of Federal Financial Accounting Standards on insurance programs for the federal government.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board issued Tuesday a long-awaited accounting standards update for the recognition and measurement of financial instruments that it has been developing for over a decade with the International Accounting Standards Board.

Check out the digital edition of the January 2016 issue of Accounting Today.

(Bloomberg) Michael Oxley, the former U.S. congressman who co-sponsored the landmark Sarbanes-Oxley Act has died, age 71.

A video preview of the January issue of Accounting Today from editor-in-chief Dan Hood.

The Service has updated HealthCare Tax Tip 2015-85 to clarify the revised reporting dates and make the dates in this tip consistent with the dates in Notice 2016-4.

Atlanta’s Habif, Arogeti & Wynne creates a new attest service

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board’s first 2016 webinar will cover the latest findings in the board’s interim inspection program for auditors of brokers and dealers.

GASB has issued guidance on how certain state and local government external investment pools and participants in external investment pools may measure and report their investments.