Financial reporting

The Securities and Exchange Commission has barred a former corporate vice president and a former controller for false accounting at an electronics company.

The World Gold Council, a market development organization for the gold industry, has some ideas about developing a common accounting framework for gold that could be used by central banks in countries around the world.

The costs of the finance and accounting function at many companies are expected to climb in the next few years, according to a new survey.

Oracle Corp. and its top executives were sued by an investor who blames his stock losses on allegations by a former finance executive that the cloud computing giant doctored its quarterly results.

New York’s highest court again rejected a bid by former American International Group Inc. Chairman Maurice “Hank” Greenberg to dismiss the state’s decade-old fraud suit against him, clearing a path for a trial.

The XBRL US Data Quality Committee has released an analysis showing big improvements in the quality of filings in Extensible Business Reporting Language format by companies that follow a new set of validation rules.

The number of financial restatements from companies fell nearly 14 percent last year to the lowest number since 2002, according to a new report.

The profiles and priorities of CFOs around the world are undergoing a transformation, according to a new report from Ernst & Young.

There’s more cash sitting on company balance sheets than ever before. For the first time since 2012, that’s not enough.

Public companies in the U.S. are doing more to burnish the results they present to investors than ever before. It isn’t working.