The Private Company Council has released the agenda of its next public meetings, which are scheduled for September 30 and October 1.

The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board has created a corporate pilot program to guide companies on how to use the board’s standards to report material sustainability issues in their SEC filings.

Debunking the myth of the $100-per-day fine for not providing ACA-related information to employees

Income per equity partner at the nation’s CPA firms jumped 5.5 percent in 2012, climbing to $386,000, according to the recently released 2013 Rosenberg MAP Survey.

Income per equity partner at the nation’s CPA firms jumped 5.5 percent in 2012, climbing to $386,000, according to the recently released 2013 Rosenberg MAP Survey.

Bernard Madoff’s former accountant pleaded not guilty on Thursday to charges he helped the convicted con man carry out a Ponzi scheme.

Top 100 Firm The Bonadio Group is merging with Gaines Kriner Elliott LLP. The merger is expected to be finalized on November 1, and the two firms will operate under the Bonadio name.

The Securities and Exchange Commission said Tuesday that foreign private issuers who prepare their financial statements in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards do not have to submit interactive data files until the SEC decides on a suitable XBRL taxonomy.

Big Four firm PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP has been hired by BlackBerry Ltd. to evaluate the struggling Canadian smartphone maker for potential buyers, according to two people with knowledge of the move.

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The Securities and Exchange Commission charged JPMorgan Chase & Co. Thursday with misstating financial results and lacking effective internal controls to detect and prevent its traders from fraudulently overvaluing investments to conceal hundreds of millions of dollars in trading losses.

Kashoo has released version 3.0 of its cloud accounting software app for the iPad, which boasts a new design and productivity-increasing enhancements.

Accountants don’t think their small-business clients are prepared for the Affordable Care Act, according to a recent survey.

The accounting profession’s expectations for economic growth dropped somewhat this month, according to the September edition of Accounting Today’s monthly Accountants Confidence Index.

Top 30 CPA firm Carr, Riggs & Ingram has merged Gainer Donnelly, expanding their geographic reach with the local Houston CPA firm, which was one of Accounting Today’s 2013 Regional Leaders for the southwest.

A former Commerzbank AG and Societe Generale SA banker admitted in a U.S. court to aiding Olympus Corp.’s $1.7 billion accounting fraud.

The International Organization of Securities Commissions and the IFRS Foundation said Wednesday that they have agreed on a set of protocols under which the two organizations will deepen their cooperation to develop International Financial Reporting Standards and apply it consistently across the globe.

The United Kingdom’s Financial Reporting Council has launched an investigation into whether PricewaterhouseCoopers’ U.K. firm was independent when it conducted an audit of a company on which one of its former partners later joined the board.

The Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council, the main advisory group for the Financial Accounting Standards Board, has released the results of a recent survey soliciting views about FASB’s future agenda, revealing pent-up demand for addressing issues such as financial disclosures, hedging and simplification of FASB’s Codification of U.S. GAAP.

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