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The American Woman’s Society of Certified Public Accountants (AWSCPA) announced on Thursday that CohnReznick, one of the leading accounting, tax, and advisory firms in the U.S., has been named the recipient of its Innovation in Women’s Programming Award for 2015.

The SASB has launched a Data Provider Partner Program, giving investors access to high-quality information on corporate sustainability performance.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has disciplined seven audit firms and seven auditors who worked at the firms for violations of the Engagement Quality Review standard and other requirements.

An estimated 24,237 taxpayers may have been adversely affected because the Internal Revenue Service did not follow requirements to notify the taxpayers’ representatives of the taxpayers’ rights related to notices of federal tax liens, according to a new report.

The IRS is seeking to limit private-equity executives’ practice of reducing their tax bills by reclassifying how their management fees are taxed.

The IRS needs stronger ways to prevent nonprofit groups from facing audits because of employees’ biases, the Government Accountability Office found in a report being issued Thursday.

As part of the CPA profession’s 6-Point Plan to Improve Audits, the AICPA will present a free webcast, “Drive Your Competitive Edge with Audit Quality,” on Thursday, July 30 from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. ET.

Institutional investors are expressing a high level of dissatisfaction with the types of sustainability-related information they are getting from companies, according to a new survey from PricewaterhouseCoopers.

One of the more intriguing questions stemming from the Toshiba Corp. accounting scandal is this: Where was the whistleblower?

Toshiba Corp. issued almost 1 trillion yen ($8 billion) of stocks and bonds when it was inflating earnings statements, leaving the company exposed to possible regulatory fines and investor lawsuits.