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Alongside their public reports, Carson Block and Nate Anderson are quietly sharing research about sketchy accounting and other misdeeds with the commission's whistleblower office.

The former co-CEOs of Bitwise Industries used a number of fake documents to help raise money from investors.

Only four companies said the events were "material."

The board is incorporating some of the commission's disclosure requirements into its Accounting Standards Codification.

Public company executives are also aiming to push third parties they deal with to boost their security, too.

The commission charged the Top 100 Firm with violating auditor independence rules on many occasions.

The commission appointed a CPA who has served as director of the board's Division of Registration and Inspections.

GTT Communications self-reported that it has difficulty reconciling data from two different systems, and overreported its income as a result.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed upgrading the EDGAR system to, among other things, shift from a per-company login system to a per-individual one.

State legislators passed a bill that would leapfrog the Securities and Exchange Commission's efforts to require companies to disclose their greenhouse gases and climate-related financial risks.

The Securities and Exchange Commission charged the former national assurance services leader at Marcum LLP with failing to address and remediate a number of deficiencies in the New York-based auditing firm's quality controls.

Corporate controllers can play an important role in environmental, social and governance reporting as the U.S. and other countries prepare to impose new reporting requirements.

A March acquisition continued to yield dividends for the Cleveland-based Top 50 Firm; Deloitte and CohnReznick also saw big gains.

The SEC's recently finalized rule on private fund advisors will impose new requirements.

High-quality access logs and data access auditing capabilities bring much of the reporting information companies need to get their arms around a data breach.

A group of financial industry trade associations sued over the rule, which would require more disclosures of fees and expenses, and annual audited financial statements.

Hedge funds and private equity firms will have to disclose more about their fees and face new restrictions from the Securities and Exchange Commission on giving investors special treatment.

The Securities and Exchange Commission adopted new rules and amendments aimed at tightening the regulation of private fund advisors.

New cybersecurity disclosure rules will encourage companies to formalize and standardize their IT security practices — and their accountants will help.

The award is the fourth largest in the commission's whistleblower program's history.