Audit & Accounting

The International Accounting Standards Board has proposed changing the accounting standards for measuring and classifying financial instruments in response to concerns raised by the financial crisis.

The Center for Audit Quality’s Research Advisory Board has chosen five auditing-related academic research projects to fund.

Web 2.0 technologies like XML, web services and social networking have taken off like wildfire and have caught many accounting professionals off-guard.

Accounting firm Crowe Horwath LLP has advice on the top 10 ways that corporations can reduce occupational fraud.

Turmoil in the financial markets has negated the value of fair value accounting, according to more than half the respondents to a new survey.

IMGCAP(1)] Malik, a first-year African-American associate assignedto a major accounting firm’s California office, frets that he has blownhis one chance to make a good first impression:

The International Federation of Accountants and the International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants have issued a revised Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants that strengthens the independence requirements of auditors.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has added a new project to its agenda aimed at making financial disclosures more organized and less redundant.

The International Accounting Standards Board has published a stripped-down set of International Financial Reporting Standards aimed at small and midsized privately held businesses.

Ever since we launched a redesigned Web site in late April, we’ve been eager to add new features and we can finally roll out the first major one.