Audit & Accounting

The American Institute of CPAs and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants intend to officially launch their new Chartered Global Management Accountant credential on January 31.

The American Institute of CPAs has launched a new letter-writing campaign aimed at pressuring the Financial Accounting Foundation to set up a separate standard-setting board for private company accounting.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board published previously nonpublic portions of its inspection report from 2008 of Deloitte & Touche LLP after the firm failed to address problems with its audit procedures after a 2007 report.

As someone who works within a 3-wood from New York's financial markets, I found myself wandering over during a lunch hour to see for myself the five weeks and counting spectacle of the Occupy Wall Street protestors.

The American Institute of CPAs has released a new white paper addressing the fair value measurement of financial assets and liabilities, for which there is no market.

The Institute of Certified Management Accountants, the certification division of the Institute for Management Accountants, launched the new simplified Chinese language version of its two-part Certified Management Accountant exam.

Chief financial officers and investors have increased their support for global accounting standards since the start of the economic crisis in 2008, according to an international survey published Thursday by the global Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board announced Thursday that it had permanently barred a Denver-based audit partner and permanently revoked the registration of a registered public accounting firm because the audit partner had participated in audits while subject to a previous bar.

The Internal Revenue Service has sent out an advisory to tax preparers and tax firms that do not have Electronic Filing Identification Numbers to obtain EFINs in order to meet the 2012 e-file mandate.

Top 100 CPA and business advisory firm Cherry Bekaert & Holland has divested its Mobile, Ala.-based office to local accounting firm Wilkins Miller Hieronymus LLC for undisclosed terms.