Audit & Accounting

An alternate financial reporting tool is available for small- and medium-sized entities.

PricewaterhouseCoopers reported Tuesday that its global revenues in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2014 increased 6 percent to $34 billion.

The Brilliant Q4 2014 accounting, finance and IT Hiring Forecast reported open positions and robust plans for increased hiring of accounting, finance and IT professionals in Q4 2014, both permanent and temporary.

While there are many well-equipped organizations for accountants in the United States and Europe, much of the developing world is still missing robust groups that can foster development of ethical practices for accountants and look out for their interests.

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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.