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More than a dozen years ago, the U.S. experienced a rash of high-profile accounting scandals. Now it’s Japan’s turn.

Some of New York’s most ambitious young CPAs will gather in Midtown Manhattan this Friday for NextGen 2015, an annual interactive career development conference hosted by the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants.

Sage announced several product revamps to kick off the 2015 Sage Summit Tuesday, including Sage X3 in the cloud and Sage Live, developed in partnership with Salesforce.

Since the advent of Financial Accounting Standard 133 in 1998, financial statement preparers have been dealing with the onerous and complex requirements of hedge accounting, arguably one of the most complex statements that the board has promulgated.

As the most recent group of college grads earns their diplomas, they may not necessarily have everything they need to enter the working world. That's at least according to a new survey by Accountemps - a division of global staffing firm Robert Half - that found that more than half (56 percent) of accounting and finance professionals said they felt only somewhat prepared for their first job after graduation.

The Anti-Fraud Collaboration, a joint effort of the Center for Audit Quality, Financial Executives International, the Institute of Internal Auditors and the National Association of Corporate Directors, has released the third in a series of case studies examining how to identify and stop accounting fraud in an organization.

Jim Metzler is as close to a crystal ball as you’ll get

Electronic payments and banking technology provider ACI Worldwide said the Internal Revenue Service has extended its relationship with the company’s OfficialPayments.com online bill payment service portal.

A roundup of new and updated hardware, software, books and services for accountants.

Why so many young professionals lack the basics, and what to do about it