Financial reporting

Warning: Banks in the U.S. are bigger than they appear.

Xerox Corporation chief accounting officer Gary Kabureck has been appointed to serve as a member of the International Accounting Standards Board starting in April.

The Indiana CPA Society has released a second white paper on the topic of the future of competency for CPAs, prepared by a board-level task force on that subject.

Legislation has been introduced in Georgia to give the Georgia State Board of Accountancy its own executive director and staff, along with greater financial and operational autonomy, to bring it in line with other state boards of accountancy.

Accounting firm BlumShapiro said Alfred Rosenthal, CPA, a founding partner of the firm, died peacefully in his home surrounded by his loving family and caregivers on Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013, at a vibrant 92 years of age.

Succession planning survey, Mengel Metzger tapped to write the Charter School Audit Guide for New York State Education Department and more…

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has issued a revised set of proposals for the financial instruments accounting standards it has been working to converge with International Financial Reporting Standards.

Check out the digital edition of the February 2013 issue of Accounting Today.

A new study examines how buyers and clients select a professional services firm, including accounting and financial services firms.

The profession's confidence in the U.S. economy is growing somewhat, according to the February edition of Accounting Today’s monthly Accountants Confidence Index.

An executive summary of our February ACI.

The U.S. regulator that oversees corporate audits could face automatic spending cuts designed to reduce the federal budget deficit even though it receives no taxpayer funding.

The Private Company Council that will help set accounting standards for privately held businesses has decided to tackle three main projects for its agenda.

Top 100 Firm Marcum LLP and its affiliate, Marcum Bernstein Pinchuk LLP, had the most net new Securities and Exchange Commission audit clients in the fourth quarter of 2012 among large firms, with a total of six.

The National Association of State Boards of Accountancy is calling for proposals for its Accounting Education Research Grants Program.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board made available the first in a series of implementation guides Monday to help users of its U.S. GAAP Financial Reporting Taxonomy understand how disclosures are structured with Extensible Business Reporting Language, or XBRL, technology.

The Indiana CPA Society has released a white paper on the topic of integrated reporting.

American Institute of CPAs VP Mark Koziel discusses trends from the most recent MAP Survey, including results on partner compensation, billing rates and the profession's emergence from recession.

A couple of real accounting changes occurred, but world accounting convergence got derailed.