Audit & Accounting

Accounting Today is issuing a call for nominations for its annual Top 100 Most Influential People in Accounting list.

The Private Company Financial Reporting Committee received an update on the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s efforts to bring U.S. GAAP into line with International Financial Reporting Standards, especially in how that effort would relate to private companies.

The National Society of Accountants has created a new social network for tax preparers.

The Governmental Accounting Standards Board is expected to issue new proposals this week that would require state and local governments to be more open about their pension-funding obligations.

The American Accounting Association reassured its members last week about its legal standing after a professor raised questions about several errors in the series of entities set up by the group of accounting educators and researchers.

Many CPAs in the U.S. already have some knowledge of International Financial Reporting Standards and have begun to develop greater expertise as U.S. and global authorities work to converge U.S. GAAP with IFRS, according to a new survey by the American Institute of CPAs.

The National Society of Accountants and its affiliates have selected Thomson Reuters Checkpoint Learning brand as the exclusive affinity provider for webinars that award continuing professional education credit.

The International Accounting Education Standards Board has proposed a revision of the entry requirement standards for a professional accounting education.

A new salary survey by the Institute of Management Accountants has found that Certified Management Accountants and CPAs earn substantially more than those without certification.

Global business consulting and internal audit firm Protiviti Inc. has added a Time & Expense Management module to the Protiviti Governance Portal for Internal Audit, which lets organizations access a comprehensive internal auditing workflow anywhere, anytime.