Audit

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has published a staff inspection brief detailing the objectives, focus, and scope of its ongoing inspections in 2015 of auditors of brokers and dealers.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board released the proposed 2016 GAAP Financial Reporting Taxonomy for public review and comment Tuesday.

The Governmental Accounting Standards Board decided Tuesday to add a project to its technical agenda to re-examine the financial reporting model for state and local governments.

Nobody knows bookkeeping anymore.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has issued a proposed accounting standards update to clarify the implementation guidance on principal versus agent considerations contained in the new revenue recognition standard.

Toshiba Corp. uncovered 10 new cases of accounting problems, including at a U.S. unit, prompting it to miss a regulator’s deadline for submission of its fiscal 2014 earnings release.

While accounting scandals in the Netherlands have not been making a whole lot of headlines in the U.S., they have been generating plenty of controversy at home.

Each year when the calendar turns to June, I get mixed emotions. On one hand, I am thrilled that summer has arrived but on the other hand, I’m dreading my upcoming June 30 deadline to report 40 new hours of CPE to my state board.

The Governmental Accounting Standards Board has published a new authoritative implementation guide that details comprehensive authoritative implementation guidance that has been cleared by the board for state and local governments.

Last year, the percentage of non-audit fees dropped below 10 percent of the total fees paid to audit firms for the first time since Sarbanes-Oxley, according to a new report.

Financial Executives International has appointed Andrej Suskavcevic as president and CEO of both FEI and the trade group’s Financial Executives Research Foundation.

The American Institute of CPAs has released new guidance in Q&A format on required supplementary information for audited financial statements.

Tim Gearty of Becker Professional Education describes some of the recent changes in accounting standards that will be confronting CPA candidates on their upcoming exams, in an interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Dan Hood.

Tim Gearty of Becker Professional Education discusses some recent changes in accounting standards that CPA Exam candidates should know about before sitting for the test, in an interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Dan Hood.

The Center for Audit Quality and the Auditing Section of the American Accounting Association are looking for academics who want access to audit firm personnel for their research projects.

The Governmental Accounting Standards Board said the deadline is approaching for comments on two of its proposed changes in standards for external investment pools and irrevocable split-interest agreements.

The SEC must get out of the way and let FASB tackle its to-do list

The Financial Accounting Standards Board plans to host roundtable meetings to discuss its recent proposed changes in accounting for not-for-profit organizations and health care entities.

Nearly half of accounting and finance professionals in a recent survey said they typically spend their lunch breaks eating alone, even though almost as many said they would rather have a coworker join them for lunch.

Most of my clients, large and small, have always been on fixed annual fees, payable monthly.