SEC

The Securities and Exchange Commission is exempting filers with less than $100 million in revenue from the requirement for an attestation of their ICFR by an outside auditor.

Who are the casualties of the SEC’s aggressive enforcement?

The Securities and Exchange Commission is giving “conditional” regulatory relief from certain filing obligations for public companies due to the outbreak.

As with 2018, mergers made a major difference for many auditing firms – but not all.

In light of this new global challenge, what do these businesses and their tax professionals need to consider?

PricewaterhouseCoopers is adding a third external director to its board, former SEC commissioner Troy Paredes, and establishing an Assurance Quality Advisory Committee where the firm will bring in more outside voices to help improve its audits.

Leaders of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board issued a joint statement Wednesday about the impact of the coronavirus on audit firms trying to operate in China.

The White House’s latest budget blueprint proposes consolidating the functions and responsibilities of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board into the Securities and Exchange Commission starting in 2022.

A slow quarter for the biggest firms saw lots of small gains for smaller auditors.

The Securities and Exchange Commission voted to propose amendments to the financial disclosure requirements in Regulation S-K and streamline the Management's Discussion and Analysis disclosures.

A bill stuck in Congress might help improve audit oversight.

All eyes will be on the large SEC registrants in January as they become the first financial institutions to adopt the current expected credit loss model, or CECL.

The Securities and Exchange Commission is proposing a set of amendments to the auditor independence rules that have been in place since the early 2000s, allowing firms more leeway in determining conflicts of interest and shortening the lookback period for clients planning to go public.

All three are pending final acceptance by the SEC, which is expected to finalize them early next year.

Five new trustees have also been named to the Financial Accounting Foundation.

SEC charges revolved around how the insurer decided if clients were dead.

BDO USA appoints first female board chair; the SEC names two Deputy Chief Accountants; and more personnel news.

The founder of the apparel licenser allegedly inflated the company's revenue and earnings.

The complaints paint a picture of increasingly desperate measures undertaken by MiMedx’s top two officers to hit sales goals year after year.

When Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton handed a policy win to corporate executives this month, he pointed to a surprising source of support: a mailbag full of encouragement from ordinary Americans.