Audit & Accounting

In the past four years, the quantity of financial restatements from SEC public registrants has leveled off and their severity has remained low, according to a new report by the research firm Audit Analytics, but restatements have increased from accelerated filers for the third straight year.

Editor-in-chief Dan Hood gives an executive summary of our 2013 Top 100 Firms & Regional Leaders report.

Accounting Today has released its Top 100 Firms and Regional Leaders report for 2013, ranking the largest firms in the U.S. and in regions across the country.

The Financial Accounting Foundation has released an updated print edition of the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s Accounting Standards Codification, and appointed some new members to its advisory committees.

The Group of 20 finance ministers, along with the European Commission, are calling for improved accounting standards in the public sector.

Tax bills, tools and tweaks to products and programs topped this week's tech news, which by the way is now coming to you twice per week.

Check out the digital edition of the March 2013 issue of Accounting Today.

Awards, new tax blog and more...

The profession's confidence in the U.S. economy is growing even more strongly than before, according to the March edition of Accounting Today’s monthly Accountants Confidence Index.

Even as top executives at failing companies dump their shares, auditors of those same companies often fail to issue a going concern opinion to warn other investors of the precarious nature of the corporation’s finances.