Accounting standards

The Big Four firm is seeing signs of trouble ahead for companies, despite the strong economy in the U.S. right now.

The ratings agency is putting the spotlight on accounting in the first of a series of reports.

The North Carolina-based CPA firm is partnering with the financial technology provider to offer client accounting services to dentists.

The companies are giving their customers access to both Chargebee’s subscription billing system and Softrax’s Revenue Manager revenue recognition software.

Firms are now diversifying their offerings with additional services that support clients throughout their lifecycle.

QuickBooks will actually increase the market for bookkeepers.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board issued a proposed accounting standards update Thursday on the recognition and measurement of deferred revenue in business combinations.

The bakery chain was rescued by an Irish private-equity firm after an accounting scandal pushed the U.K. cake baker into insolvency.

Deloitte’s member firm in Japan, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu LLC, is paying a $2 million settlement to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to resolve charges that it issued audit reports for a client at the same time dozens of its employees had bank accounts at a subsidiary of the client.

The blogosphere fires have been stoked by what seemed to be a new live bookkeeping service from QuickBooks.

Milan prosecutors say former executives at BT Group were aware its Italian unit hid losses and inflated revenue by producing fictitious invoices.

The International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board has issued a trio of proposed standards to improve the quality of audits, reviews and related assurance service engagements at firms.

Phillips has been recruited to provide guidance on recruiting qualified accounting and bookkeeping staff with modern skill sets.

The German online payments firm Wirecard AG has seen its stock plunge by more than a third in recent days on reports of accounting misdeeds.

In his 17 years as chief executive officer of Germany’s Wirecard AG, Markus Braun has gained plenty of experience fighting off skeptics and critics.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board hopes to simplify the move to the new credit loss rules by offering an option to measure certain assets at fair value.

The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants is partnering with the International Federation of Accountants on videos and case studies

Most organizations are using manual workarounds to comply with the new rev rec standard, according to a survey by Ernst & Young.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board held a roundtable discussion on its new credit losses standard, with some mid-tier banks asking it to reconsider.