The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales plans to develop guidance for auditors on providing assurance on interest rate benchmarks in the wake of the outcry over manipulation of the LIBOR, or London Inter-Bank Offered Rate, which cost the jobs of top executives at the British bank Barclays.

An executive summary of our monthly ACI for September

Recent promotions, new hires and more

Recent network memberships, awards, new Web sites and more

Gelman, Rosenberg & Freedman CPAs, a financial, tax and consulting firm serving the Washington, D.C, area, has acquired the litigation support and forensic accounting practices of Greystone Advisory Group LLC.

The Private Company Council that the Financial Accounting Foundation is setting up is intended to serve as the voice of millions of privately held companies during the standard-setting process.

Todd Davis joins the nonfiction media company’s global tax division as executive vice president.

James Buckley will help build the firm’s Government Services Group.

The new addition allows the Ohio-based regional firm to enter Central Florida

A penny shaved is a trust spurned

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It used to be that only very large, successful companies could operate and compete globally. Today, companies of any size can take advantage of global opportunities.

Account reconciliation is an underappreciated, yet critical, control to help ensure an organization's financial integrity. Weaknesses and inefficiencies in the reconciliation process often lead to mistakes on the balance sheet and overall inaccuracies in the financial close.

A penny shaved is a trust spurned

Nerds are officially cool -- cool enough to have recently overshadowed their prototypical rivals, jocks.

What makes a visionary? The question was broached obliquely several times throughout the American Institute of CPAs' 2nd annual E.D.G.E. Conference, held in mid-August in Orlando, Fla.

Half a dozen accounting firms have been selected to help oversee compliance by the five banks that agreed to a mammoth national mortgage settlement.

With our annual Top 100 Most Influential People list as its centerpiece, the September issue of Accounting Today is always a celebration of the individual in accounting.

A reader responds to an earlier letter about columnists Miller & Bahnson

A roundup of merger & acquisition activity among accounting firms