Financial reporting

National Estate Planning Week, AICPA Leadership Academy graduate class of 2014 and more…

Big Four firm KPMG lead the pack among large firms in terms of new Securities and Exchange Commission audit clients in the third quarter of 2014, but a small Midwestern firm walked away with the most new engagements.

With the goal of expanding the role of influential women in the CPA profession, the AICPA will hold the Women's Global Leadership Summit in Washington D.C. from Oct. 23-24.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board announced that it is accepting applications for research fellowships for next year.

Middle-market companies have had a tough couple of years on the tax front, according to a survey by Top 5 firm McGladrey LLP.

As traveling professionals know, it's best to stick with the familiar out on the road. Supporting this, big brands reigned supreme when cloud-based travel and expense management software provider Certify recently shared their findings on millions of receipts and expenses for the third quarter of 2014.

To advocate free services for low-to-moderate income taxpayers, top officials from the New York State Tax Department and the United Way of Northern New York met today in the first ever North Country Community Outreach Tax Summit.

The IFRS Foundation has launched eIFRS Professional, a new way for accountants to access information online about International Financial Reporting Standards.

After a slight dip in September, the Accountants Confidence Index continued its downward trajectory, with both the short- and the mid-term measures declining, and short-term expectations dropping into contractionary territory.

Publicly traded companies in the U.S. recorded the lowest level of goodwill impairment since 2008, according to a new study.

In the first article in this series, we explained the concepts behind the American Institute of CPAs’ release of its guidelines called Financial Reporting Framework for Small and Medium-Sized Entities (or FRF for SMEs).

The United Kingdom-based Institute of Financial Accountants is joining together with Australia’s Institute of Public Accountants to form one of the largest professional accounting organizations in the world dedicated to small and midsize firms.

As year-end planning season is upon us, savvy professionals might think about getting together with their financial teams to consider both their 2015 outlooks and last year's changes in tax law to ensure matters are in shipshape.

PwC IPO report, Annual Tax and Business Seminar, and more…

RoseRyan took notice that a good number of companies wane after they make their debut on the stock exchange. To help those companies stay on track RoseRyan launched RoseRyan Day 2 — a comprehensive service to help newly public companies master reporting and compliance guidelines.

Business e-filing rose nearly 10 percent this year, continuing the growth that has seen the number of corporate and partnership e-filed returns double since 2010.

Wireless telephone service taxes and fees are more than double the average rate of general sales tax, according to a report .

Audit fees increased slightly in 2013, according to a new report, but remain lower as a percentage of revenue than in 2004.

Tax prep and filing vendor TaxACT has released its 2014 federal software for 1040, 1065, 1120S, 1120 and 1041 returns.

U.S. investors’ confidence in a variety of aspects of U.S. markets has reached new highs, according to the Center for Audit Quality’s 2014 Main Street Investor Survey.