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A group known as the Climate Disclosure Standards Board is readying an updated Climate Change Reporting Framework that aims to tie environmental information in with financial reporting for investors.

Atsushi Kato, a former partner at PwC Japan and a public member of the International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants, recently shared his insights on why ethics and accountability are crucial in the wake of recent accounting scandals and what it means to operate in the public interest today.

The Governmental Accounting Standards Board has released a proposed standard that would require state and local governments to disclose information about property and other tax abatement agreements for the first time.

American Realty Capital Properties Inc. fell for a second day Thursday after reporting accounting errors that led to the resignations of two top executives, sparking concern about the company’s ability to raise money for growth.

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The National Conference of CPA Practitioners is warning that the complexities of the Affordable Care Act may negatively affect millions of taxpayers in the upcoming tax season.

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The Financial Accounting Foundation, the parent organization of the Financial Accounting Standards Board, has appointed banking executive Mary P. Crotty to the newly created position of chief operating officer.

Tesco Plc Chairman Richard Broadbent will leave after the U.K.’s biggest supermarket company said accounting irregularities started earlier than this year and will continue to impact profit in the second half.

As previously reported, the majority of 99 accounting firms surveyed by ConvergenceCoaching have implemented work-from-home programs for their staff. Convergence has now released further insights, both positive and negative feedback, from those firms,

KPMG recently announced that its Short Hills, NJ office has attained Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification from the U.S. Green Building Counsel, the 25th KPMG workplace to do so under its "Living Green" program.

The Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission, also known as COSO, is planning a project to review and update its decade-old Enterprise Risk Management–Integrated Framework.

The American Institute of CPAs has introduced two new tools to help CPA firms and organizations expand and enhance their diversity and inclusion efforts.

The American Institute of CPAs is getting ready to roll out its long-awaited update of compilation and review standards for CPAs, Statement on Standards for Accounting and Review Services No. 21 (SSARS No. 21), one of the most significant revisions in non-audit standards in the last 35 years.

The final day of the American Institute of CPAs’ 2014 Fall Meeting of Council in Boston saw the AICPA Nominations Committee induct the next class of Board and Council members, including newly elected 2014-15 chair of the board Tommye Barie.

The American Institute of CPAs has asked the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to reject appeals by EEOC staff to investigate and litigate against accounting firms about their mandatory partner retirement provisions, saying in a letter Monday that the classification of partners as employees would be disruptive to the accounting profession and its business practices.

AICPA president and CEO Barry Melancon delivered the keynote speech at the 2014 Fall Meeting of Council in Boston on Monday, discussing the unprecedented changes he foresees in the accounting profession in the coming years.

On Sunday, the first day of events at the AICPA’s 2014 Fall Meeting of Council in Boston, Mass., the state of the Uniform CPA Examination proved to be a key topic, with plans to ultimately release a new version of the Exam by 2017.

Our fifth annual Growth & Profitability Summit is coming up in early November, and editor-in-chief Dan Hood explains why you owe it to yourself and your firm to attend -- however you have to get there.

In an Oct. 16 letter to the IRS, the AICPA questioned the ordering rule under Internal Revenue Code section 1368, asserting that an ambiguity exists under current rules for determining adjustments to the accumulated adjustment account (AAA) of an S corporation.