SEC

The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board have been lightening the load on audit firms.

CAT expenses are forecasted to drop an additional $20 million given the SEC's order and other cost-saving measures.

Paul Atkins said the proposal will let companies report on a semi-annual basis, though many might still choose to report quarterly.

President Donald Trump said companies should not be forced to deliver earnings reports on a quarterly basis, saying he preferred a six-month schedule he cast as saving businesses time and money.

Paul Atkins warned the SEC might eliminate a rule that allows multinational companies to avoid reconciling their IFRS financials with U.S. GAAP.

James Moloney, a partner at the law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, will head the SEC's division of corporation finance starting next month.

With major mergers, the Top 10 Firms topped the list of new Securities and Exchange Commission Engagements in the second quarter.

To those who might remember this column that ran for more than 20 years, and to those who don't, it took something especially egregious to bring me back.

Securities and Exchange Commission chair Paul Atkins has begun searching for new members and a new chair of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board only days after forcing the PCAOB chair to resign.

The errors were tied to accounting for engineering scrap and engineering support labor.