Accounting standards

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SEC Chair Jay Clayton calls for nominees for open board spots.

The United Nations Academic Impact and MLOW provide an example to follow.

Many accounting and finance professionals are in high gear preparing their organizations and clients for the transition.

In early 2015, a previously unknown entity published a series of scathing reports attacking the accounting practices of a Hong Kong commodity trader.

The advice is aimed at helping professional accounting organizations work more effectively with governments and regulators.

Companies like Facebook and Google parent Alphabet are seeing a significant drop in their GAAP tax rate.

The proposed ASU would apply to more than just nonprofit organizations.

The Justice Department has closed an investigation into how the driller accounts for oil and natural gas assets.

Job growth at small businesses continued to slow down last month, although wages are rising, according to a new report from payroll giant Paychex.

Nearly half of corporate executives are concerned about their ability to implement the lease accounting standards, according to a survey by Deloitte.

The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board has released its 2017 Technical Agenda, listing the priorities and research areas that SASB plans to pursues this year.

Nothing stands in the standard-setters way except itself.

Contingent consideration, also referred to as an earnout, is commonly used to bridge a valuation gap, provide continuing incentive to business sellers or account for the achievement of technical or other milestones.

Extensible Business Reporting Language, the data-tagging code now required by the Securities and Exchange Commission for filing financial statements, has been making headway not only in the U.S., but in other parts of the world.

CPA Ireland is absorbing the membership of the Institute of Incorporated Public Accountants as two of Ireland’s largest accounting professional bodies agreed to a permanent collaboration.

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The American Institute of CPAs has issued a new guide to help accountants provide assurance on their corporate clients’ environmental information.

The Center for Audit Quality and the Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society are celebrating the 15th anniversary of the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act with a series of videos featuring commentary from several accounting, finance and auditing experts.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board is disciplining Crowe Horwath’s member firm in Hong Kong for refusing to turn over audit work papers.