Audit & Accounting

Public companies paid on average $7.1 million in audit fees, according to a new survey, representing an increase of 4.5 percent over last year’s audit fees paid.

Average starting salaries for accounting and finance professionals in the United States are forecast to rise 3.5 percent next year, according to the staffing company Robert Half.

The Certified General Accountants Association of Canada (CGA-Canada) has joined CPA Canada, completing the long and sometimes fractious process of integrating the country's national accounting bodies.

Cindy Fornelli, executive director of the Center for Audit Quality, discusses the impact of regulatory and policy changes on financial restatements since Sarbanes-Oxley, in an interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Dan Hood.

As part of our Top 100 Most Influential People in Accounting report, we asked the candidates: "What is the most important issue currently facing the accounting profession?"

As part of our Top 100 Most Influential People in Accounting report, we asked the candidates: "What one piece of advice would you give young people entering the profession?"

The AICPA is working on the next iteration of the CPA Exam.

The risk for your firm of not being involved is too high

The profession's leaders share their big worries, from short-term concerns about staff to long-term fears of irrelevance

It's a good time to be hired -- and to hire.