Audit & Accounting

Word that the U.S. Marine Corps had passed an audit of its books was such a cause for celebration that a ceremony was staged last year in a Pentagon hall usually reserved to honor battlefield bravery.

Thomson Reuters has introduced the Checkpoint Learning Forensic Accounting Certificate Program for CPAs and other accounting and audit professionals to help them build competencies in forensic investigation, related process, and litigation support while earning continuing professional education credits.

Accounting Today editor-in-chief Dan Hood previews the August issue in this summer camp video.

The International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board has released an exposure draft proposing changes to how auditors should handle engagements reporting on summary financial statements.

In an age of stepped-up regulation and enforcement, accountants and their clients need to know how to cope with a variety of different agencies, including the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has issued a three-part accounting standards update for employee benefit plans accounting as part of its efforts to simplify the accounting rules.

Profs. Miller & Bahnson dive deep into the standard-setter in an all-new edition of a classic text

The Financial Accounting Standards Board is beginning to hear from not-for-profit organizations and their accountants about the far-reaching changes it has proposed in reporting by nonprofits, and finding there are some disagreements, even among FASB’s own leaders.

Global standards advocates need to understand the problems

Plaintiffs filed 85 new federal class-action securities cases against U.S.-based companies in the first half of 2015, a decrease from the second half of last year, which saw 92 cases filed, according to a new report.