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Wesley Bricker said the commission is keeping an eye on a number of new developments in accounting standards and financial reports.

The hip-hop mogul is in hot water with Wall Street’s top regulator.

The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board Foundation has appointed Perella Weinberg Partners partner and CEO Robert K. Steel as its new chair, succeeding former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the founder and chief executive of Bloomberg LP. Steel previously worked under Bloomberg as deputy mayor.

While it's not yet required, the use of the data-tagging technology is steadily expanding.

Initial coin offerings have raised billions of dollars for startups while attracting criminals and authorities around the globe. Now, the young market may get some help cleaning up from the Big Four consulting firms.

Biotech, pharmaceutical, medical device and related businesses are dealing with recent accounting standards, plus a new tax law, amid a changing landscape for their industry.

The former company insider first submitted the tip to another agency, but provided the same information to the Securities and Exchange Commission within 120 days.

CPAs can provide attest services to make sure businesses are taking steps to mitigate tech risks.

An appeals panel sided with an auditor who wasn't allowed extra help at his deposition.

Businesses that were early adopters of the new rules have been running into some issues with regulators and investors.

The biggest-ever payouts went to tipsters who provided information that helped the agency bring a 2016 case against Bank of America.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has accepted the latest sets of XBRL tags for financial filing.

The International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation has released a new set of data tags, while the Securities and Exchange Commission also renewed its files.

Elizabeth Holmes raised hundreds of millions of dollars from investors on the promise that her medical-testing startup Theranos Inc. would change medicine with a single drop of blood. On Wednesday, securities regulators called her a fraud and forced her to give up the company she built.

Foreign affiliates of KPMG, Deloitte & Touche and BDO have agreed to settle charges with the Securities and Exchange Commission for getting involved in audit work that circumvented the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board’s full oversight.

The Securities and Exchange Commission voted unanimously to approve guidance to encourage public companies to provide more information about cyber attacks, data breaches and the risks of them occurring.

The U.S. Supreme Court narrowed an anti-retaliation provision in the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial law, insulating publicly traded companies from some whistleblower lawsuits.

Awareness, communication and documentation are the keys to staying independent.

The Securities and Exchange Commission named Kyle Moffatt, a former audit manager at Ernst & Young, as chief accountant in the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board is moving forward with a proposed accounting standards update to reclassify the stranded tax effects from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, although at least one investor group has some concerns.