Accounting standards

The document discusses some considerations involving the use of specialists when auditing financial statements during the pandemic.

Global confidence improved significantly in the third quarter of the year among accountants.

The board's revisions emphasize the trust that the public places in accounting professionals.

The board has voted to defer the effective date of its long-duration insurance contract standard for one year.

The American Institute of CPAs’ Auditing Standards Board issued an attestation standard for when auditors perform examination engagements with clients.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board imposed a $250,000 penalty on Marcum LLP and its Marcum Bernstein Pinchuk unit over audits of Chinese companies.

A panel of tech-forward accountants share their favorite tools and applications.

10 elements that make up the formula for success in offering client accounting services.

Client accounting services give firms the flexibility to move forward in their own way.

Client accounting services could take your firm to the next level.

Ratcliffe and other senior Ineos executives caused tension with the company’s auditor, PwC.

The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants is connecting its members and affiliates with each other after a successful pilot test in six markets.

KPMG is already starting to use the new standards to improve audit quality globally.

If the pandemic has a silver lining, it’s that the global accounting world is becoming smaller and borderless.

At least 39 states did not have enough money to pay all of their bills at the end of 2019, leaving them ill-prepared to shoulder the costs of the novel coronavirus pandemic, according to a new report.

Now that U.S. companies have experienced two fiscal quarters in the midst of the novel coronavirus pandemic, quarterly reporting for Q3 doesn’t seem to be getting any simpler, according to a new report from Deloitte.

KfW, Germany’s third-largest bank by assets, may drop Ernst & Young as auditor as EY continues to be plagued by its role in the country’s Wirecard accounting scandal.

Germany’s financial regulator is considering opening a probe into Grenke AG’s accounting practices, wading deeper into the controversy after criticism of its failure to unearth fraud at Wirecard AG.

COVID-19 doesn’t seem to be having an impact on such disclosures, according to a report from Ernst & Young.