Audit & Accounting

For the first time, Securities and Exchange Commission information about companies and mutual funds is now fully searchable online.

Intuit Inc. is among the latest companies receiving an informal inquiry from the Securities and Exchange Commission regarding its stock option granting practices.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board's top auditor offered some suggestions for the third year of life under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, while speaking at the 25th Annual Securities and Exchange Commission and Financial Reporting Institute Conference on June 8.

Victor Hugo once wrote that the one thing more powerful than all the armies on earth was an idea whose time has come.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board and the American Institute of CPAs issued a proposal aimed at improving the financial reporting process for private companies.

The profits of companies with difficult-to-read annual reports are lower in following years, according to a study by a University of Michigan business professor.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed securities fraud charges against three former executives of national restaurant chain Buca Inc., which operates the Buca di Beppo and Vinny T's of Boston national restaurant chains.

The Big Four are looking to add to their staff numbers in China, according to a published report.

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that securities lawyer Andrew N. Vollmer will serve as the agency's deputy general counsel.

KPMG LLP received federal court approval for a $153 million settlement with more than 200 wealthy investors who bought questionable tax shelters from the Big Four firm.