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The anonymous tipster is the first rewarded under rules that encourage employees to report potential fraud to their companies first.

It's time to treat environmental, social and governance metrics with the same rigor as financial metrics.

Is quarterly reporting really valuable enough to investors to justify the time and cost spent to compile the reports?

The Securities and Exchange Commission is proposing to limit the requirements under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act for audits of internal controls over financial reporting, making them apply to only the largest public companies.

The SEC proposed to free small companies from a Sarbanes-Oxley Act requirement that an auditor sign-off on their internal controls over financial reporting.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has voted to propose a set of amendments to its rules governing the kind of information provided to investors.

In a slow first quarter, the Big Four firm racked up a commanding position.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board may begin asking auditors to look at cybersecurity when assessing risks at the companies they audit.

The Securities and Exchange Commission and Public Company Accounting Oversight Board finalized 45 enforcement actions involving accountants in 2018, marking a significant decrease from 2017.

The Council of Institutional Investors is asking the Securities and Exchange Commission to require companies to explain any non-GAAP metrics used to set executive compensation within their proxy statements.

The senator really hates it when corporations that report billions of dollars in profit pay little or no tax to Uncle Sam.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has approved the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s 2019 GAAP Financial Reporting Taxonomy, along with the 2019 SEC Reporting Taxonomy, FASB said Tuesday.

SEC appoints Acting Chief Counsel, Office of the Chief Accountant; Avalara expands executive team; and other recent hires, promotions and personnel news from firms across the country.

The food maker flagged to investors a subpoena it received last year from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission related to its procurement practices.

Deloitte’s member firm in Japan, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu LLC, is paying a $2 million settlement to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to resolve charges that it issued audit reports for a client at the same time dozens of its employees had bank accounts at a subsidiary of the client.

Two firms dominate an otherwise slow quarter for new engagements.

The SEC and FASB control the process now, but Congress should give banking regulators a more central role in overseeing the creation of accounting rules.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has imposed a civil penalty on the car rental giant for misstating pretax income.

The client collapsed after it was discovered to have $100 million in unpaid payroll tax liabilities.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has been pilot testing its upcoming requirements for auditors.