Corporate governance

The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board voted during an online meeting last week to open a new standard-setting project to address single-use plastics and bio-alternatives in the chemicals and pulp and paper industries.

It is important to develop a specialty, but it needs to be balanced with the needs of the practice and your interests.

Accounting firm leaders need to hold fast to growth principles in changing times.

The COVID-19 pandemic isn’t stopping BDO USA from pursuing a constant series of M&A deals in recent years, although the latest one had to be mostly negotiated at a safe distance.

The COVID-19 pandemic is likely to lead to long-term consequences for organizations, according to a survey of accountants around the world by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.

It may seem counterintuitive to think about growth with the economy declining, but there are evolving opportunities, particularly for firms that can adapt to a changing business model.

Finance execs are concerned about a new wave of infections leading to a further economic downturn, according to a survey Monday from PricewaterhouseCoopers.

As companies contend with the economic impact of the global pandemic and the related risks, management should be prepared for heightened auditor scrutiny.

It’s too bad that a pandemic is what was needed to push firms into stronger leadership, but now that the world has changed, accounting firms need to change with it.

Knowing what buyers need, where they do their research, and what influences their decisions are all key to a firm’s success.

Highs, lows, curveballs and surprises are routine for every business, including accounting firms. Pandemics, however, are not routine (thankfully!). This crisis tests and provokes us all to the extreme.

Employment growth at small businesses improved slightly in May, up 0.25 percent, as stay-at-home orders eased in most states, but that was only after reaching historic lows in April, according to payroll giant Paychex.

The Bonadio Group, a Top 100 Firm based in Rochester, New York, began returning to its offices this week as the stay-at-home order to combat the spread of the coronavirus was lifted in some parts of the state.

Gale Crosley shares how Top 100 Firm Grassi & Co. wrote the book on reinvention.

Despite the coronavirus, firms can’t afford to stop looking for prospects

The council has opened a 90-day consultation period on proposed revisions to its International Integrated Reporting Framework, and named Conor Kehoe as its new chair.

Your clients' businesses evolve over time — and the business environment in which they operate changes as well, especially at a time like this.

This year all playbooks have to be discarded and a fresh start needs to be developed.

Every firm and many businesses are going through a crisis like none that anyone could foresee, or one that any of us have had to ever navigate before.

Do you have someone on your team who’s not flourishing and developing?