When I practiced as a CPA, there were days when I left the office wondering why anyone would ever want to go back tomorrow and do it again. Those days seemed to drag on forever. I did not feel very productive or accomplished, and generally didn't feel good about myself or my chosen career path.

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The first part of this article ("Surviving the sandstorm," May) focused on strategic growth as a critical imperative for accounting firms around the world. I noted the profession's historic hesitation to jump on the growth bandwagon and the impact of that decision.

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A roundup of resent news in audit and attest.

CPA firms are advising clients to begin to get ready for the newly released revenue recognition standards, even though they won’t be taking effect until 2017.

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Changes in the proposed lease accounting standards that the Financial Accounting Standards Board and the International Accounting Standards Board are working to converge are expected to have an impact on approximately half of public companies, but less than 10 percent will see a major impact, according to new research by the IASB.

Public companies are confronting significant new compliance challenges from a combination of Sarbanes-Oxley requirements, Public Company Accounting Oversight Board inspections of their auditing firms, and COSO’s new internal control framework, according to a new survey.

Accounting firms are full of barriers to growth, many of which are invisible, and some of which may spring from the owners themselves, according to growth consultant Angie Grissom.

A group of technology companies sent a letter Wednesday to leaders of the House Financial Services Committee objecting to legislation that would exempt companies with under $250 million in annual revenue from existing requirements to file financial statements as machine-readable open data.

The XBRL International Standards Board is forming a global Corporate Actions Working Group to standardize the transmission of corporate action events in Extensible Business Reporting Language, or XBRL.

The Governmental Accounting Standards Board voted unanimously Wednesday to approve two exposure drafts proposing significant improvements to financial reporting by state and local governments of other post-employment benefits, such as retiree health insurance.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board and the International Accounting Standards Board have released their long-awaited converged standard on revenue recognition after more than a decade of effort.