Audit & Accounting

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.

(Bloomberg) It’s too early to tell whether Star Wars: The Force Awakens will become the biggest grossing film of all time, but the really interesting question is whether the movie will ever go into profit.

Leaders of the Financial Accounting Standards Board and the International Accounting Standards Board are bracing for the release of the leasing standard and other standards that have been under development and generating debate for over a decade.

The Governmental Accounting Standards Board has issued three exposure drafts with reporting guidance related to fiduciary activities, certain asset retirement obligations, and pension issues.