Regulation and compliance
Regulation and compliance
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The International Sustainability Standards Board is reaching quorum strength with the latest appointments.
June 24 -
The only clear theme from a recent Senate hearing was the lack of certainty around when a retailer should start collecting tax.
June 22 -
The Top 10 Firm's new "qm.x" application aims to help accounting professionals with ISQM 1 compliance.
June 22 -
The chemical and automotive fluid manufacturer will realign its business units in the wake of a bookkeeping investigation triggered by whistleblowers.
June 22 -
With two congressional recesses and an election coming up, time is running out.
June 20 -
The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board held its final public meeting Wednesday ahead of the consolidation of its parent organization, the Value Reporting Foundation, into the International Sustainability Standards Board by the end of June.
June 16 -
The board has decided to set aside a long-running project that would have required companies to amortize goodwill on a straight-line basis over 10 to 25 years.
June 16 -
A congressional appropriations committee wants to give the Internal Revenue Service $1 billion more in funding to improve taxpayer service and technology and make the overall tax system fairer.
June 16 -
Rep. Don Beyer, D-Virginia, introduced a bill to impose a 1,000% excise tax on manufacturers, importers or producers of assault weapons and high-capacity magazines in the wake of a string of mass shootings across the country.
June 15 -
Taxes versus budgets; meaning of gross taxable income; new blog in town; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.
June 14 -
The Internal Revenue Service issued a revised Audit Technique Guide to help examining agents evaluate the validity of cost segregation studies submitted by taxpayers to substantiate accelerated depreciation deductions.
June 14 -
The Financial Accounting Standards Board is asking its stakeholders to provide feedback on whether it should work on a new standard to account for government grants while building on an existing international standard.
June 13 -
Two decades after passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, public companies are spending more time and money trying to comply with SOX requirements, despite the increasing use of technology to automate the process.
June 10 -
With gas prices rising, the service announced an unscheduled increase.
June 10 -
The commission charged the Top 20 Firm and three of its partners Wednesday, and the firm agreed to pay a $1.9 million penalty to investors.
June 8 -
The legislation is one of the most ambitious attempts to regulate the volatile asset class.
June 7 -
The Securities and Exchange Commission is requiring some financial forms that currently are allowed to be filed or submitted in paper format to be filed or submitted electronically.
June 7 -
Errors and misstatements were headed down, according to a report from Audit Analytics, but instead they hit a 15-year high.
June 6 -
The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board released a set of recommended changes to three of its remaining active projects as its parent organization prepares to be merged into the International Sustainability Standards Board at the end of this month.
June 2 -
With social media and the internet multiplying the ways people can give, the rules are more important than ever.
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