Audit & Accounting

CEOs of several major accounting organizations around the world have signed an open letter urging world leaders to agree on reducing carbon emissions.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has issued a proposed accounting standards update to clarify the definition of a business in an effort to improve financial reporting of acquisitions of nonfinancial assets.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has issued an accounting standards update to improve how deferred taxes are classified on the balance sheet.

A partner at a New York CPA firm has pleaded guilty to participating in a multimillion-dollar accounting fraud scheme.

Interim CEOs engage in considerably more earnings manipulation than their permanent successors, according to a new study.

Accounting and financial reporting standards for state and local governments that address nonexchange transactions achieved their purpose, according to a new report.

The Financial Accounting Foundation's board of trustees has decided to overhaul some of the procedures for the Private Company Council, which provides input to the Financial Accounting Standards Board on issues relating to privately held companies.

Securities and Exchange Commission chief accountant James Schnurr indicated Tuesday that he plans to recommend to SEC chair Mary Jo White that U.S. companies be allowed to use International Financial Reporting Standards to provide supplemental information, in addition to filing their financials in accordance with U.S. GAAP.

Companies are taking steps on their own to make their financial reports and disclosures more understandable, according to a new report.

Public company audits are improving, according to Securities and Exchange Commission Chief Accountant James Schnurr -- and they need to keep on doing so.