Audit & Accounting

Practitioners share which parts of their jobs they’d ditch and which they’d keep.

Other issues take precedence over environmental, social and governance issues for many finance execs, according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers survey.

Initial enthusiasm for change inspired by the country’s biggest postwar accounting scandal is waning in the face of political opposition.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board said Tuesday the Securities and Exchange Commission has accepted the latest updates to the GAAP Taxonomy for filing financial statements with the SEC.

An Ernst & Young partner said his firm fell victim to “criminals,” rejecting allegations EY didn’t do enough to uncover wrongdoing at the now-defunct payment processor.

Most of the insurers that provided the company with director-liability policies have agreed to pay as much as $93 million toward settlements resulting from a 2017 accounting crisis.

More than 20 percent of the wealthiest Americans’ income isn’t being reported to the Internal Revenue Service, according to a new study that calculates U.S. tax evasion is far higher than previously estimated.

The son of a former slave, John W. Cromwell Jr. broke through a major barrier in the accounting profession in 1921.

Growth consultant Gale Crosley shares crucial guidance for firms looking to focus on consulting and advisory services.

Fewer than two out of every 100 taxpayers reporting over $1 million in income were audited by the Internal Revenue Service in fiscal year 2020, according to a new report.