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The new revenue recognition standard is going to force many companies to make new disclosures, but they shouldn’t wait until the last minute to get ready, warns a recent report.

Companies and mutual funds might be able to use a more convenient version of Extensible Business Reporting Language in their financial filings, under a new rule proposed by the SEC.

While issues of immigration, trade and freedom of the Fourth Estate are dominating the media cycle, there are other significant areas of policy flux worthy of consideration as President Donald Trump’s term gathers momentum.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has given its approval to the 2017 GAAP Financial Reporting Taxonomy, the annually updated set of accounting standards built using computer-readable tags.

The Securities and Exchange Commission said Tuesday that an auditor in Silicon Valley has agreed to settle insider trading charges.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged two former executives at iPayment, a Westlake Village, California-based credit card processing company, with overseeing a scheme to steal millions of dollars via bogus expense reimbursements, inflated invoices and various accounting maneuvers.

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.

The Center for Audit Quality marked its birthday at an event Monday featuring a roster of high-profile figures in the accounting profession.

The CFA Institute has published a two-part report examining the controversy over non-GAAP financial measures from an investor perspective.

Seattle-based financial services company agrees to pay a $500,000 penalty to settle charges with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it improperly performed hedge accounting and later took steps to impede potential whistleblowers.

A medical device maker agrees to settles charges brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission that it improperly booked revenue and made improper payments to doctors at government-owned hospitals in Brazil to increase sales.