Audit standards

Martin Baumann has been appointed as the new chair of the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board.

Grant Thornton's Mike Santay shares what's new at the Auditing Standards Board, and what's to come.

Technology is critical to the changes in this core service -- but so are people.

The International Federation of Accountants is outlining some possible ways forward to resolve a disagreement with the Monitoring Group of financial regulators over the standard-setting process for global auditing and accounting education.

The AICPA's Chuck Landes looks both back and ahead to track where this core service has been -- and where it's going.

The Center for Audit Quality has published a guide to the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board’s new audit reporting model and the critical audit matters that auditors will be required to start including in their audit reports next year.

The Government Accountability Office has updated its auditing standards guide.

The Auditing Standards Board is thinking about relaxing some of the requirements for attest engagements.

The U.K. accounting watchdog is ramping up misconduct fines after being called useless and toothless by lawmakers irate at the failure of the accounting industry to prevent several high-profile corporate collapses.

Wesley Bricker, chief accountant at the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of the Chief Accountant, told attendees at the Institute of Management Accountants’ annual conference in Indianapolis on Tuesday about the vital role he sees them playing in financial reporting.