Audit & Accounting

  • The National Association of State Boards of Accountancy is urging the Securities and Exchange Commission to withdraw its proposed roadmap for transitioning to International Financial Reporting Standards.

    February 20
  • The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has issued guidance on the recent requirement for registration of auditors of privately held broker-dealers.

    February 20
  • Big Four Firm PricewaterhouseCoopers has awarded $700,000 in grants to 26 colleges and universities to accelerate their respective curricula on International Financial Reporting Standards.

    February 19
  • Big Four firm Ernst & Young named former Bear Stearns and Washington Mutual executive Michael Solender as its Americas vice chair and general counsel, effective February 24.

    February 19
  • CFOs and senior-level executive CPAs see the domestic economic downturn as lasting longer than previously expected, according to a survey by the American Institute of CPAs and the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School.

    February 19
  • The Securities and Exchange Commission has appointed former Public Company Accounting Oversight Board member Kayla Gillan as senior advisor to new Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Mary Schapiro, effective immediately.

    February 19
  • When Timothy Geithner unveiled the Treasury Department’s latest financial rescue plan, he probably didn’t expect it to flop so quickly.

    February 18
  • Proving generational clashes aren’t only taking place in the states, we found an article in an Australian small business publication quoting a 24-year-old KPMG employee in Melbourne worried about her future for the first time after her two close friends lost their jobs.

    February 18
  • There is probably something in humans and in every generation that makes us think that the problems we face are uniquely difficult.

    February 17
  • President Barack Obama plans to sign the stimulus bill into law in Denver on Tuesday after Congress passed the massive $787 billion bill.

    February 17