Audit & Accounting

The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants has introduced ACCA-X, a set of online learning courses for accountants and financial professionals.

Check out the digital edition of the April 2015 issue of Accounting Today.

Toshiba Corp. fell the most in more than a year after the company said it would appoint a committee to investigate possible problems with its accounting.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board is planning to propose two new projects as part of its initiative to simplify accounting standards, along with two new projects for FASB’s Emerging Issues Task Force.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has voted to propose to defer the effective date of the new revenue recognition standard by one year after hearing feedback from constituents.

You manage what gets measured: Penny-wise but pound-foolish financial reporting

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has approved the reorganization of its auditing standards to help users navigate the standards more easily.

Filings of securities class actions with accounting-related allegations increased 47 percent in 2014, according to a new study.

Privately held U.S. companies are growing sales this year so far at the fastest rate in three years, according to the financial information company Sageworks.

Kara Stein, a commissioner with the Securities and Exchange Commission, appeared to reject the need for convergence with International Financial Reporting Standards in a speech last week.