Audit

Internal auditors feel they need more visible and vocal support from senior managers within their organizations as changing demands put them under more pressure, according to a new survey.

Armanino Consulting, a Microsoft Dynamics reseller and the business consulting division of Top 100 Firm Armanino McKenna, has partnered with business software provider Axonom to launch a "fully unified" ERP/CRM product for semiconductor and high-technology electronics companies.

Top 20 Firm Moss Adams LLP has launched FastForm, an online tool to help nonprofits and tax-exempt organizations fill out the complex Form 990.

One employee's trash is another's welcoming gift

Wolters Kluwer Audit, Risk & Compliance has released a new report on how different organizations are using auditing technology.

A new Web site aims to draw attention to accountants in the Seattle area.

After looking into the role of the auditors in the recent accounting scandals at camera-maker Olympus Corp., Japan's Financial Services Agency ordered KPMG Azsa LLC and Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC to improve their systems -- though it noted that it had not found "any intentional acts or grave negligence."

The July edition of Accounting Today's Accountants Confidence Index marked a major milestone when, for the first time since it was started last fall, the short-term ACI reading indicated that the panel of accountants expect a contraction over the next three months.

The International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board has released for comment a consultation paper on its future work program for the next two years.

Accounting Today is now accepting candidates for its annual Top 100 Most Influential People in Accounting list.

Sitting at my desk, just over a mile’s walk from Independence Hall, the site where John Hancock famously put his signature on the Declaration of Independence, I can’t help but reflect on why we celebrate the Fourth of July.

The International Federation of Accountants has published 2012 editions of three handbooks from the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board, the International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants and the International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board.

We've opened our Accountant of the Month contest up again

Current techniques used by auditors and taught to accounting students to evaluate financial statement information involve audit sampling and performing analytical procedures such as financial ratio analysis and reasonable tests.

Columnists Miller & Bahnson send out two important messages, to FASB and to members of the AICPA

Highlights in auditing and assurance from the last month

Other companies' and countries' experiences offer useful lessons in preparing your clients for adopting IFRS

the trustees of the Financial Accounting Foundation's board of trustees voted in late May to establish a new Private Company Council that will determine whether exceptions or modifications to U.S. GAAP for privately held companies are necessary -- and gathered crucial support from various professional bodies, most notably the American Institute of CPAs.

Robert Pozen suggests an alternative to audit firm rotation

Fitch Ratings said that two recently released pension accounting and financial reporting standards from the Governmental Accounting Standards Board are generally positive for state and local governments.