SEC

Medbox founder agrees to disgorge $12M and banning

Deregulation, new accounting standards and an overhaul of the corporate tax code are among the topics likely to come up during annual general meetings this year, according to BDO USA.

Cindy Fornelli, executive director of the Center for Audit Quality, talks in this podcast about her organization's recent celebration of its first decade and the trends in audits and investor confidence in the financial markets.

Homex allegedly falsified sales of over 100,000 homes to inflate revenue for three years in a row.

Overall, smaller firms gained by far the most new and net engagements for the year.

A new study questions the usefulness of proxy advisory services in helping corporate boards of directors and investors decide whether to keep or change auditing firms.

When Donald Trump interviewed Jay Clayton to be his chief securities regulator in December, the then-president elect was fixated on the steep decline in U.S. initial public offerings.

With the new fundraising tool on the rise, the Securities and Exchange Commission is looking to get stakeholders’ thoughts on the new method of raising capital in a public forum.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board’s guidance on the definition of a business could be of special benefit to the real estate, pharmaceutical, biotech and financial services industries, but doesn’t go as far as some had hoped.

Natural-food supplier that began a probe of its accounting practices last year, fell as much 15 percent after saying the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has opened a formal investigation into the matter.