Audit & Accounting

Check out the digital edition of the October 2014 issue of Accounting Today.

AICPA's Future of Learning Task Force - a working group of firm leaders, industry CPAs, regulators, and educators - has announced four recommendations to promote lifelong learning in the CPA profession.

The American Institute of CPAs’ Employee Benefit Plans Expert Panel has developed some new practice aids to provide nonauthoritative guidance about the effects of recent accounting standards relating to the liquidation basis of accounting on employee benefit plans.

Public companies paid on average $7.1 million in audit fees, according to a new survey, representing an increase of 4.5 percent over last year’s audit fees paid.

Average starting salaries for accounting and finance professionals in the United States are forecast to rise 3.5 percent next year, according to the staffing company Robert Half.

The Certified General Accountants Association of Canada (CGA-Canada) has joined CPA Canada, completing the long and sometimes fractious process of integrating the country's national accounting bodies.

Cindy Fornelli, executive director of the Center for Audit Quality, discusses the impact of regulatory and policy changes on financial restatements since Sarbanes-Oxley, in an interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Dan Hood.

As part of our Top 100 Most Influential People in Accounting report, we asked the candidates: "What is the most important issue currently facing the accounting profession?"

As part of our Top 100 Most Influential People in Accounting report, we asked the candidates: "What one piece of advice would you give young people entering the profession?"

The AICPA is working on the next iteration of the CPA Exam.