Audit

Audit and risk management product maker ACL is now offering its ACL Workpapers product for the iPad and iPhone.

Legislation has been introduced in Georgia to give the Georgia State Board of Accountancy its own executive director and staff, along with greater financial and operational autonomy, to bring it in line with other state boards of accountancy.

Accounting firm BlumShapiro said Alfred Rosenthal, CPA, a founding partner of the firm, died peacefully in his home surrounded by his loving family and caregivers on Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013, at a vibrant 92 years of age.

Succession planning survey, Mengel Metzger tapped to write the Charter School Audit Guide for New York State Education Department and more…

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has issued a revised set of proposals for the financial instruments accounting standards it has been working to converge with International Financial Reporting Standards.

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

A new study examines how buyers and clients select a professional services firm, including accounting and financial services firms.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has unanimously approved the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board’s 2013 budget and the related annual accounting support fee that it charges to issuers and broker-dealers.

The profession's confidence in the U.S. economy is growing somewhat, according to the February edition of Accounting Today’s monthly Accountants Confidence Index.

The U.S. regulator that oversees corporate audits could face automatic spending cuts designed to reduce the federal budget deficit even though it receives no taxpayer funding.

The Private Company Council that will help set accounting standards for privately held businesses has decided to tackle three main projects for its agenda.

Top 100 Firm Marcum LLP and its affiliate, Marcum Bernstein Pinchuk LLP, had the most net new Securities and Exchange Commission audit clients in the fourth quarter of 2012 among large firms, with a total of six.

Kayla J. Gillan, a former deputy chief of staff at the Securities and Exchange Commission and founding member of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, has been tapped to lead PricewaterhouseCoopers’ new Investors’ Resource Institute.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board made available the first in a series of implementation guides Monday to help users of its U.S. GAAP Financial Reporting Taxonomy understand how disclosures are structured with Extensible Business Reporting Language, or XBRL, technology.

Public Company Accounting Oversight Board member Jeanette Franzel said the ability to inspect auditing firms in China remained one of the PCAOB’s greatest challenges, but the PCAOB is making progress on negotiating a memorandum of understanding with the Chinese government.

The Indiana CPA Society has released a white paper on the topic of integrated reporting.

A couple of real accounting changes occurred, but world accounting convergence got derailed.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has issued an updated financial instruments standard clarifying how some fair value requirements do not apply to private companies and not-for-profit organizations.

The International Accounting Standards Board and the International Integrated Reporting Council have signed an agreement to develop an integrated corporate reporting framework that includes financial, governance, management commentary and sustainability reporting.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has released an updated accounting standard for reporting amounts reclassified out of accumulated other comprehensive income.