Audit

The Securities and Exchange Commission has appointed a new deputy chief accountant in the Office of the Chief Accountant, Marc A. Panucci, a partner in PwC’s national professional services group.

The International Accounting Standards Board has released its five-year work plan for International Financial Reporting Standards, with a focus on completing its insurance contracts standard and revising its conceptual framework.

Audit software provider AuditFile and business publishers John Wiley & Sons have jointly released a new version of AuditFile’s cloud-based audit program and automation solution.

Audit committees are increasing the amount of information they are giving investors on the actions they are taking to oversee their outside auditing firms, according to a new report.

BDO USA LLP is partnering with CoStar Group’s CoStar Real Estate Manager division to advise companies on complying with the lease accounting standard.

Check out the digital edition of the November issue of Accounting Today.

More than 125 institutional investors sued Tesco Plc, seeking in excess of 100 million pounds ($122 million) over the U.K. grocer’s 2014 profit overstatement.

Nearly one out of four internal auditors around the world face pressures to either suppress or change their audit findings, according to a new report.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has initiated proceedings against an audit partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers accusing him of not doing enough to audit a venture capital fund whose manager was stealing money.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged PKF O’Connor Davies and one of its senior partners with issuing fraudulent audit reports on the municipal bond offerings of the town of Ramapo, N.Y.