Audit & Accounting

Accounting Today is now accepting candidates for its annual Top 100 Most Influential People in Accounting list.

Sitting at my desk, just over a mile’s walk from Independence Hall, the site where John Hancock famously put his signature on the Declaration of Independence, I can’t help but reflect on why we celebrate the Fourth of July.

The International Federation of Accountants has published 2012 editions of three handbooks from the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board, the International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants and the International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board.

We've opened our Accountant of the Month contest up again

Current techniques used by auditors and taught to accounting students to evaluate financial statement information involve audit sampling and performing analytical procedures such as financial ratio analysis and reasonable tests.

Future firm leaders need a mix of personal guidance and outside support to keep them on track.

A former AICPA chair writes a letter to the editor criticizing columnists Miller & Bahnson

Columnists Miller & Bahnson send out two important messages, to FASB and to members of the AICPA

When its younger staff speak, Houston-based accounting firm MaloneBailey listens -- and acts

Highlights of the month in public accounting