PCAOB

With companies and not-for-profit entities facing a top-to-bottom review of their revenue recognition because of a looming accounting standard, the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) has issued the first online edition of an Audit & Accounting Guide ...

The Center for Audit Quality (CAQ) has published two new member alerts that can help public company auditing firms address potential risks in a proactive and accelerated manner.

Virtually everyone agrees that being able to differentiate your firm is cool. Yet, very few local CPA firms are in fact, different. To be fair, the nature of what CPAs do naturally makes them look more alike than different.

ARAG, a group of practitioners and academics formed in collaboration with the American Accounting Association, will review and approve academic research proposals that address questions with a nexus to the following topics.

Since Reg A+ rules were adopted one year ago, over 100 companies have filed for approval. This number is expected to continue growing as crowdfunding becomes more and more popular.

I've been reporting on the accounting profession since Andersen was in the Big Five, Sarbanes and Oxley were just drinking buddies in DC, Enron was a company where great careers were made, and the PCAOB wasn't even a figment of anyone's imagination.

A roundup of professionals in the tax and accounting profession that have changed jobs and/or been promoted.

Fees paid by public and private companies to outside financial auditing firms increased from 3 to 3.4 percent over the last year, according to a report from the Financial Executives Research Foundation.