Audit & Accounting

The International Accounting Education Standards Board proposed changes in its ethics standards to provide for learning and development activities in professional values and ethics for accountants throughout their careers.

Leaders of the Financial Accounting Standards Board and the International Accounting Standards Board said Thursday they have pushed back their work on the handful of “priority” projects they had committed to complete this year.

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The American Institute of CPAs has joined up with the White House on a new initiative aimed at helping veterans and their families who want to start or grow a small business.

Today’s audit committees expect more from their chief audit executives than ever before, and financial and business acumen are no longer sufficient, according to a new report.

In the decade I've been at the helm of this publication, I'm always amazed - and disappointed - at the sort of double standard that exists when it comes to the treatment of the accounting profession versus other services in the wake of a crisis.

Congress held a hearing Wednesday on the role of the accounting profession in preventing another financial crisis, listening to testimony from accounting regulators, standard-setters and critics.

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The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has struck a cooperative agreement with Swiss regulators that will allow the U.S. and Switzerland to establish a cooperative framework for supervisory oversight of auditors that practice in each country.