Audit & Accounting

Education services company Kaplan Inc. a subsidiary of publicly traded Graham Holdings, has agreed to acquire SmartPros, Ltd., a provider of accredited professional education and training for accountants and other finance professionals.

The Securities and Exchange Commission reported Thursday on its enforcement results in fiscal year 2015, highlighting several cases involving accounting and auditing lapses.

The CAQ highlights nine areas auditors will want to pay particular attention to in the next audit cycle

The dizzying rise and rapid fall in the shares of drugmaker Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. is eerily familiar to Canadian investors still smarting from the last time a small market was dominated by single stocks—BlackBerry Ltd. and Nortel Networks Corp.

There is a powerful alternative that is increasingly being used to deal with excess problematic inventory: corporate barter.

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… there was more than likely fraud and payment errors in accounts payable processes within the Death Star.

Internal auditors with advanced levels of education, training and certification are seeing bigger salaries, according to a new survey.

The Anti-Fraud Collaboration introduced a free set of online self-study courses Tuesday for corporate ethics training that can provide continuing professional education credit.

Three former top executives of Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP avoided potential prison terms after a Manhattan jury failed to agree on whether they lied to investors in the run-up to the largest law-firm bankruptcy in history.

The International Federation of Accountants expressed support for a United Nations agreement on climate change as the U.N. works to reduce carbon emissions.