Audit

The AICPA's Financial Reporting Executive Committee submitted comments to the Financial Accounting Standards Board regarding FASB’s targeted improvements to accounting for hedging activities.

The trustees of the IFRS Foundation, which oversees the International Accounting Standards Board, have reduced the board’s number of members as part of a constitutional review.

Automobile manufacturer Tesla Motors is dropping the use of some non-GAAP financial measures in its earnings releases after receiving several letters from the Securities and Exchange Commission criticizing the practice.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has struck an agreement with Italy’s audit oversight regulator, Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa.

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Cloud-based audit confirmation software developer Capital Confirmation has raised $60 million to fund “aggressive international expansion.”

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board approved its fiscal year 2017 budget of approximately $268.5 million, along with a strategic plan through 2020 to guide its programs and operations.

Vinci SA fell victim to a fake release claiming the French builder had fired its finance chief amid accounting irregularities, prompting the stock to plunge before the company denied the report.

Wesley R. Bricker has been named chief accountant of the Securities and Exchange Commission, succeeding James Schnurr, who is retiring.