Audit

As 2023 comes into view, the specter of 87,000 new IRS employees has gotten the attention of accountants and bookkeepers — as well as small and midsized business owners.

The move caps a three-year legal saga initiated by Democrats to obtain and release the former president's closely held financial documents.

The new standard for audit confirmations would replace an interim standard that hasn't changed for two decades.

The board released its latest inspection reports on Deloitte & Touche, PricewaterhouseCoopers, KPMG and Ernst & Young, plus BDO USA and Grant Thornton.

A recent study found that using machine learning in tax audits can significantly increase evasion detection as well as delinquent tax collection.

Michael Burry, the investor who foresaw the housing market crash in 2008, is skeptical about today's proof-of-reserve audits.

The accounting firm Mazars Group halted work for Binance and other crypto firms on reports that are meant to demonstrate that the companies hold the necessary reserves.

The Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission selected Lucia Wind, vice president of internal audit at the technology company Unisys, as its next board chair, succeeding Paul Sobel, for a three-year term starting Jan. 1, 2023.

Mazars Group has halted all work for crypto clients, dealing a blow to an industry seeking to shore up confidence in the wake of FTX's collapse.