Regulation and compliance
Regulation
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Opponents of the GOP health-care legislation bill are trying to revive grassroots resistance ahead of a possible vote next week, but progressive groups worry that the investigations into President Donald Trump and his campaign are diverting from efforts to derail a Senate version of the bill.
June 20 -
Proxy adviser Glass Lewis & Co. blasted Toshiba Corp.’s board for poor governance amid repeated scandals and recommended investors vote against all directors at the company’s shareholders meeting later this month.
June 19 -
Groups fighting the Republican drive to replace Obamacare say they’re worried that investigations into President Donald Trump and his campaign are diverting from efforts to derail the GOP health-care bill.
June 19 -
After every tax season, it’s tempting to do some spring cleaning, which often includes a massive dump of recently filed tax data.
June 16 -
A unit of Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp. is the focus of criminal and civil probes by the Justice Department related to how it billed the government for contracting work, the company disclosed in a filing.
June 16 -
Sustainability information is increasingly a part of corporate reporting, but many companies are still relying on boilerplate language in their disclosures, according to a recent report.
June 15 -
As Spotify prepares for an initial public offering, the music-streaming site has flagged a number of errors in its previous results, revealing a significant increase in losses.
June 15 -
Academic research finds that readable financial disclosures help not only investors, but companies as well.
June 14 -
Senate Republican leaders drafting a measure to revamp U.S. health-care policy appear to be following the same path as their House counterparts—writing a bill behind closed doors before springing it on other lawmakers and the public close to a vote.
June 14 -
The American Institute of CPAs has written a letter to the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department asking them to postpone the effective date of the centralized partnership audit regime for one year until the end of 2018.
June 13 -
A recent ruling by the Tax Court might help soften the blow to employers confronted with income tax liability for workers that have been reclassified as employees.
June 13 -
Fifteen years after passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, companies are still finding the costs of compliance heavy in terms of both dollars and man hours, according to a new report.
June 12 -
The Internal Revenue Service has released a revenue procedure that offers an easier way to get an extension of time to file a return to opt for portability of the deceased spousal unused exclusion amount.
June 12 -
Stephanie Avakian and Steven Peikin will helm the agency’s largest unit together.
June 9 -
House Republicans made headway on President Donald Trump’s pledge to dismantle post-crisis financial rules by approving a sweeping bill Thursday that rips up major aspects of the Dodd-Frank Act.
June 8 -
Many businesses are slow-walking to implementing the revenue recognition standard, even as the effective date approaches next year.
June 7 -
The Financial Accounting Standards Board voted Wednesday to proceed to a final standard on hedge accounting, part of the financial instruments project that FASB had been working on for years with the International Accounting Standards Board before the two boards went their separate ways.
June 7 -
Many companies are at risk of falling behind schedule on implementing the revenue recognition standard, according to a new survey by Ernst & Young, and CFOs and CIOs are not in agreement on the reason why.
June 5 -
A regulatory probe into PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP related to Tesco Plc’s accounting scandal was dropped as the Financial Reporting Council said there was little chance of an adverse finding in the case.
June 5 -
A legal mindset may be behind managers' poor financial reporting habits.
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