Corporate governance

A KPMG analysis identifies the big issues facing both audit committees and corporate boards in the year ahead.

As part of this year’s Top 100 Most Influential People survey, Accounting Today asked, “What is the most important issue currently facing the accounting profession?”

Five organizations released prototypes Friday of climate-related financial disclosure standards to illustrate how they could work within their various approaches.

Carrie Steffen of the Whetstone Group talks about why accountants need to get comfortable with forgetting what they know and learning new things on a regular basis.

Once CPAs adapt a truly innovative mindset, their whole approach to business and client relationships change.

Researching new business prospects before picking up the phone or sending an email will help you determine whether they are a good fit for your accounting firm’s services.

The practice is helping clients deal with streamlining operations, reducing unnecessary expenditures and improving their profitability and cash flow.

Now is the time to start preparing your firm for the changes on the way.

The Big Four firm's 11th sustainability report, 'The Time Has Come,' also found that the Americas lead the world in sustainability reporting.

Highlights of the findings from Accounting Today's annual survey of accounting firms' plans for the next 12 months.

Firms need to adapt their business development efforts to the reality of the pandemic.

The combined organization will be called the Value Reporting Foundation.

The future will look more like life during the pandemic than life before the pandemic.

New staff guidance says their disclosures may be incomplete or misleading.

Employees working remotely during the coronavirus pandemic claimed some outlandish expenses this year, including pricey exercise bikes, facelifts and private jets.

Between the pandemic, aging CPA firm owners and staffing tensions, many in the accounting profession anticipate a huge uptick in firm mergers and acquisitions over the next 24 months.

These unconventional times call for concentrating on one or two areas of specialization, and exploiting those to the max.

The percentage of workers asking for compensation for work-from-home expenses with their employers hasn’t gone up significantly since the outbreak of COVID-19.

While conventional wisdom tells us that bigger is better, that’s plain and simple nonsense when it comes to midsized CPA firms and a convenient excuse for less than stellar growth by a firm’s partner group.

The annual study will look at accounting firms' plans, expectations and concerns for 2021.