Accounting Today has issued a call for speakers for its 3rd Annual Growth & Profitability Summit, which will be held this year in Boca Raton, Fla., on October 28-30

The April edition of Accounting Today's monthly Accountants Confidence Index reversed a two-month decline, showing positive expectations for the short- and mid-term for the firs time in 2012.

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President Obama signed into law on Thursday the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, also known as the JOBS Act, which lowers the regulatory and auditing barriers for companies to seek funding and enter the capital markets.

The multi-trillion dollar asset securitization market continues to have unresolved issues in the aftermath of the financial crisis, including how the assets are accounted for, and the credit risk assessments done by bond markets and credit-rating agencies, according to a new study.

Deloitte has relaunched IAS Plus, the firm’s site devoted to news about international accounting standards.

The Center for Audit Quality sees benefits in the updated Internal Control-Integrated Framework recently proposed by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission, or COSO.

The International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board has released an exposure draft on financial discussion and analysis for public sector entities, proposing minimum required content.

The Governmental Accounting Standards Board has issued two new accounting statements, one covering items previously reported as assets and liabilities, which clarified the appropriate reporting of deferred outflows and inflows of resources, and another statement containing technical corrections to resolve conflicting guidance.

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The latest in accounting regulation, standard-setting and more.

Your firm should be up on these seven new changes to annual reports -- including major changes to disclosure

Accounting firms are beginning to take value pricing more seriously, and some are making the transition from hourly billing

Columnists Miller & Bahnson on FASB's big opportunity to demonstrate its independence

Top 100 Firm Armanino McKenna has created its own marketing and PR agency

Focusing on making the staff you have better takes effort, but makes for more dedicated, more talented emloyees

Managers and partners must take responsibility for keeping staff on board, no matter what time of year it is

Many firms are recognizing the value of developing a niche as a growth vehicle. The question is, what due diligence should firms do before jumping into a niche with both feet, and what new niches or service lines are hitting the radar screen?

The National Association of State Boards of Accountancy has released its annual Candidate Performance Book for Uniform CPA Examination candidates, presenting comprehensive statistical data from all four testing windows of the Uniform CPA exam last year.

Shares in group couponing site Groupon, one of the hottest IPOs of last year, took a nosedive in after-hours trading Friday after the company admitted in its annual report that it would need to revise its revenue and net income for the fourth quarter.