Audit

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board posted its 2010 inspection report on Deloitte & Touche on Tuesday, highlighting what it called “audit failures.”

The U.S. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board said Tuesday it has entered into a cooperative agreement with the Arab state of Dubai for the oversight of auditors in both countries.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board voted Tuesday to re-propose for public comment its proposed standards for how auditors should communicate with audit committees.

The Institute of Internal Auditors has sent a comment letter to the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board taking issue with the PCAOB’s proposal to require mandatory rotation of audit firms for listed companies, echoing concerns from the American Institute of CPAs and the New York State Society of CPAs.

The Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission has released for public comment an updated version of its internal control framework in response to changes in the business environment and their associated risks.

Jeffrey Thomson, president and CEO of the Institute of Management Accountants, worked for over two decades in the telecommunications industry and knows a thing or two about competition.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board and the International Accounting Standards Board issued common disclosure requirements Friday to help investors better understand the impact of offsetting, or netting, on a company’s financial position.

Lack of clarity about the requirements for the Small Business Lending Fund that was established last year by the Small Business Jobs Act led to confusion among both lenders and borrowers alike, according to a new government report.

PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Institute of Internal Auditors Research Foundation have released a book to help corporate directors address their fiduciary and other responsibilities.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has released its latest review of Interactive Data Financial Statement submissions and found that filers are making progress.

Business assurance technology provider ACL Services Ltd. is expanding into the electronic work papers market with the acquisition of Workpapers.com.

Olympus has until December 14 to fix its financial statements in the wake of a high-profile accounting scandal if the camera maker wants to retain its listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

The American Institute of CPAs and two Brazilian accounting organizations have signed a two-year agreement paving the way for the CPA Exam to be offered in South America next year.

Proposed changes in lease accounting standards could have a broad negative impact on the U.S. economy, triggering a $10 billion reduction in gross domestic product and 60,000 fewer jobs by 2016, according to a new study from the Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation.

The Governmental Accounting Standards Board has proposed that state and local governments should include five-year projections of their cash inflows and outflows, and financial obligations, to supplement their financial statements.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board and the International Accounting Standards Board appear to be growing tired of trying to resolve their many disagreements after 10 years of ups and downs in their relationship, and the main question now seems to be whether it will be an amicable split.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has published a staff alert cautioning auditors to beware of the risks of material misstatements in the financial statements they audit in today’s volatile economic environment.

Financial Accounting Standards Board chair Leslie Seidman advocated a cautious transition to International Financial Reporting Standards during a speech Tuesday in which she said the board should retain its control over U.S. GAAP.

The Internal Revenue Service has been doing a better job of auditing small corporations in recent years, according to a new government report, but potential quality concerns remain.

IMGCAP(1)]Many of us on the Blue Ribbon Panel on Standard Setting for Private Companies believed we were on the verge of an historic change that would have relieved millions of private companies of accounting standards geared more to the needs of public companies and their financial statement users.