Audit & Accounting

Mueller Prost PC has combined its CPA and business advisory firm with Accurate Business Results.

The tax, accounting and business consulting firm Habif, Arogeti &Wynne LLP has agreed to merge in JRZ LLC.

The Private Company Council voted Tuesday to move forward with proposed alternatives within U.S. GAAP to improve financial reporting for private companies.

The U.S.-based Center for Audit Quality has teamed up with two organizations in Europe and Australia on a new report that highlights the similar issues facing audit committees around the world.

The City of Harrisburg, Pa., has settled securities fraud charges with the Securities and Exchange Commission in the first-ever case in which the SEC has charged a municipality for misleading statements made outside of its securities disclosure documents.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has reproposed for public comment its related-parties auditing standard along with related amendments to other standards to address areas that have been contributing factors in financial reporting frauds.

The owner of a jewelry store who received confidential information from a former KPMG partner about audit clients has pleaded guilty to insider trading charges.

CFOs who are hiring accounting and finance staff are looking beyond accounting skills, according to a new survey.

Check out the digital edition of the May 2013 issue of Accounting Today.

Public Company Accounting Oversight Board member Jay Hanson spoke about some of the challenges faced by auditors and how the PCAOB is trying to address them.