Accounting standards

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board was active with enforcements in 2024, but President Trump's deregulatory attitude stands to change what's next.

The board is mulling changes in its auditor independence standards for audits of collective investment schemes involving connected parties and pension funds.

The Governmental Accounting Standards Board made some preliminary proposals on accounting for severe financial stress and probable dissolution disclosures.

The institute's Accounting and Review Services Committee clarified a standard on financial statement prep that has major ramifications for CAS practices.

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The International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board and the International Sustainability Standards Board provided help with adopting their standards.

The CFA Institute is urging accounting standard-setters to require more detailed disclosures of intangible assets before they're recognized on the balance sheet.

The Financial Reporting Council hit PwC with a $3.8 million penalty and one of its accountants with a $43,250 penalty over their audit of Sanjeev Gupta's Wyelands Bank.

GASB released a study on utilization of GAAP among state and local governments and found all the states are using GAAP, but only about three-quarters of localities are.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has created three videos from its staff on its quality control standard's monitoring and remediation process.

All too often, what accountants are selling are services that clients have to endure, says Joe Woodard, not the sort of thing that they really value.

The American Institute of CPAs' Auditing Standards Board is looking for feedback on its proposed strategic plan for 2026-30.

The Board and the Romanian audit oversight authority agreed on a statement of protocol that allows for cooperation for the oversight of auditors.

The advisory services that artificial intelligence will dominate are primarily transactional and rely heavily on data analytics to deliver insights and advice.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board today appointed members of the Investor Advisory Group and the Standards and Emerging Issues Group.

Managers at Deloitte and Ernst & Young have instructed staffers to prepare for more work in the kingdom.

The International Federation of Accountants finalized revisions to embed sustainability throughout training of accountants.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board staff released a new publication aimed at helping firms complete Form AP.

Accounting automation solutions provider Digits released its Autonomous Digital Ledger solution, intended to directly challenge competitors such as QuickBooks.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board imposed $3.375 million in fines on KPMG firms in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Israel, Italy, Mexico, South Korea, Switzerland and the U.K.