Audit & Accounting

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has issued a proposed accounting standards update to improve the effectiveness of the disclosure requirements for fair value measurements.

PricewaterhouseCoopers has released a report on the firm’s efforts to improve audit quality.

The Year Ahead: 2016 Toolkit

Grant Thornton has agreed to pay $4.5 million to settle charges that the firm and two of its partners disregarded red flags and fraud risks during audits of two publicly traded companies that ultimately faced SEC enforcement actions for improper accounting and other violations.

Check out the digital edition of the December 2015 issue of Accounting Today.

The auditing process is mechanical in its function but requires a curious mind to prevent and detect misstatements that can hurt a business.

The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board released an implementation guide Tuesday to help public companies in the U.S. identify, understand and report on the sustainability topics most likely to be material to investors.

A recent report from the Institute of Internal Auditors focuses on how internal auditors view the value they bring to their organizations, even while many of their organizations have no performance measures in place for the internal audit function.

I was asked to provide advice to people starting out in accounting and am sharing my thoughts here. I get many requests to speak, write and comment on all sorts of areas of practice management. Here is one of such interview that hopefully you might find interesting and insightful.

5 firms share their experiences with outsourced accounting services