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Summer webinars offering CPE credit, best places to work and more
May 23 -
The American Institute of CPAs is working with the College Board to develop an advanced placement course in accounting for high school students.
May 21 -
The Center for Audit Quality plans to fund four new academic research projects after requesting proposals last December.
May 21
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The Securities and Exchange Commission charged the former chief risk officer at Deloitte LLP with violating auditor independence rules by accepting casino markers from a casino gaming company client.
May 20 -
The International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants has released for public comment an exposure draft on proposed changes to certain provisions of the ethics code related to non-assurance services for audit clients.
May 20 -
American Institute of CPAs president and CEO Barry Melancon discussed the need for greater diversity at CPA firms as efforts at greater inclusion seem to be running into some headwinds.
May 19 -
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Accountants should take the lead in assessing the impact on their companies of the depletion of natural resources, recommends a new report.
May 16 -
The Governmental Accounting Standards Board has issued a proposed standard to address the accounting and financial reporting issues related to fair value measurements for state and local governments.
May 15 -
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has released staff guidance on how the PCAOB should perform an economic analysis as part of its standard-setting process.
May 15 -
The International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board has released for public comment proposed changes to the International Standards on Auditing to clarify the expectations of auditors when auditing financial statement disclosures.
May 15 -
The Center for Audit Quality and the Institute for Corporate Responsibility at the George Washington University School of Business are teaming on a new initiative on rethinking financial disclosures in response to recent comments from Securities and Exchange Commission chair Mary Jo White to streamline the existing Form 10-K disclosure requirements.
May 15 -
A majority of accounting and finance executives in the U.S. and Canada are anticipating that their companies compliance burden will increase in the years ahead, though less than half expect the cost of compliance to grow.
May 13 -
The quantity of financial restatements from public companies has leveled off in the past four years and the severity of those restatements has remained low, according to a new report from the research firm Audit Analytics, but restatements have increased from accelerated filers for the third straight year.
May 13 -
The Center for Audit Quality and the American Institute of CPAs have issued a member alert discussing regulatory changes for audits and attestation engagements of brokers and dealers and futures commission merchants, including entities that are dually registered.
May 12 -
Paid-for stock research has generally elicited widespread skepticism, but a new scholarly paper by three accounting professors suggests that paid-for analysts are more like auditors and credit-rating firms than is generally believed.
May 12 -
Awards, divorce services, PwC USs latest trendsetter barometer and more
May 9 -
The Financial Accounting Foundation has issued its 2013 Annual Report, entitled The Road Ahead, outlining the future direction of the FAF and the standard-setting boards it oversees, the Financial Accounting Standards Board and the Governmental Accounting Standards Board.
May 8 -
The Financial Accounting Standards Board has issued a proposed accounting standards update on pushdown accounting from FASBs Emerging Issues Task Force.
May 8 -
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has issued a supplemental request for comments on its proposal to reorganize the existing PCAOB auditing standards, while also providing an online demonstration of the proposed reorganization, presenting the existing auditing standards as they would look if reorganized according to the proposed framework.
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