Audit

Implementation guidance on FASB’s new NFP standards

Ron Baker dives into the new book, "The End of Accounting"

The Sarbanes-Oxley provision requiring senior financial officers to adopt a code of ethics tended to reduce the number of earnings restatements by their companies, according to a new study.

A consultant offers ugly truths and realistic remedies

The SEC gave out its second-largest whistleblower award ever to a former Monsanto financial executive .

The SEC charged California-based Enviro Board Corp.and two of its executives with using baseless financial projections and other misleading statements to defraud investors.

How can key players in the financial reporting process stay on the good side of non-GAAP use?

Non-GAAP reporting: Yes, it’s bad, but it doesn’t have to be

The Governmental Accounting Standards Board released on exposure draft proposing guidance on extinguishing debt prior to maturity.

Our virtual roundtable scopes out the shape of things to come

The U.S. Army made trillions of dollars of adjustments to its financial data for fiscal year 2015 that are not adequately documented and supported, according to a recent report by the Defense Department’s Inspector General.

PricewaterhouseCoopers has reached a settlement in a multibillion-dollar lawsuit involving the 2009 collapse of Taylor Bean & Whitaker Mortgage Corp.

Executives are worried about whether their companies are doing enough to protect themselves against financial crimes such as money laundering and fraud in the wake of the release of the Panama Papers.

Nonprofit organizations and their accountants may want to adopt Financial Accounting Standards Board’s new standard for not-for-profits early before they have to begin adjusting to some of the other new standards coming out from FASB.

The Affordable Care Act has new surprises this year that can trip up employers and their advisors, experts warn.

PricewaterhouseCoopers has released a quick overview of the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s lease accounting standard.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has inked a cooperative agreement with the German Auditor Oversight Body, a new regulator for audit firms in Germany.

A review of the Governmental Accounting Standards Board’s 2006 standard for pollution remediation reporting found it generally achieved its goal of improving the disclosures of state and local governments’ obligations to control pollution.

Top 20 Firm Marcum LLP led the second-quarter rankings among large firms for new Securities and Exchange Commission audit clients.

Documenting audit and review procedures often feels more like administrative than value-adding work.