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Public company audits are improving, according to Securities and Exchange Commission Chief Accountant James Schnurr -- and they need to keep on doing so.

PricewaterhouseCoopers has been working on ways to soup up its audit practice by leveraging data analytics technology.

My last column addressed the importance of controls when trying to get a client. But it is also important to retain the client. A good system that is not monitored is a sure way to not only lose the client, but be kept awake at night.

Dent K. Burk Associates, P.C. and Hodges, Jones & Mabry, P.C. have joined the accounting firm of Brown, Edwards & Company, L.L.P., effective Nov. 1, 2015.

Financial Accounting Standards Board chairman Russell Golden and technical director Susan Cosper discussed FASB’s upcoming leasing, classification, impairment and hedge accounting standards during a conference in New York, along with the board’s plans for future standards.

A roundup of recent personnel announcements from accounting firms and companies across the country.

Anton Collins Mitchell LLP, based in Denver, is expanding to Laramie, Wyo., by merging in Mader Tschacher Peterson and Co., LLC, effective Jan. 1, 2016.

The AICPA has found that women more often attain partnerships within the CPA profession at smaller firms - comprised of 20 accounting professionals or less - according to new research.

Indiana accounting firms Katz, Sapper & Miller and Krouse, Kern & Co., are joining forces.

A recent survey noted that workflow was one of accounting firms’ top technology challenges.