Financial reporting

Would you prefer to be running a business in 2012 or 1906?

Highlights of firm mergers & acquisitions from the previous month

Accounting firms shouldn't think that there isn't a cost to a merger that doesn't happen

The unemployment rate for senior accountants and auditors is a relatively low 4.1 percent.

A roundup of major developments in accounting in the previous month.

Many tax practitioners focus on improving their efficiency during tax season, but there are plenty of things they can do in advance to ensure success from January to April, according to 2020 Group chairman and CEO Chris Frederiksen.

FASB chair Leslie Seidman lays out a schedule for handling the remaining projects on the convergence agenda

Financial Accounting Standards Board chair Leslie Seidman is planning for a multilateral way of working with the International Accounting Standards Board in the future, even as her term approaches an end next year.

Recent network memberships, awards, new Web sites and more

Brad Benton has been chosen to lead the health care practice of Dixon Hughes Goodman LLP.

GMI Ratings has compiled a second “Black Swan Risk List” identifying 40 North American companies with the highest risk of major drops in share prices within the next six months.

Online accounting community iShade said Tuesday it is adding two new directors as it prepares for the New Year.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has issued a proposed Accounting Standards Update aimed at clarifying the scope of transactions that would be subject to disclosures about offsetting of assets and liabilities on the balance sheet.

Lattimore Black Morgan & Cain PC gave five staff members the role of partner.

Mike Lynch, who founded the British software company accused by Hewlett-Packard Co. of falsifying finances, said that while he may have used some of the contested accounting and sales methods, they were all legal.

Recent network memberships, awards, new Web sites and more

Financial Accounting Standards Board chair Leslie Seidman talks with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Daniel Hood about how FASB's relationship with the International Accounting Standards Board is changing.

The BDO network of accounting firms said Tuesday that annual revenue grew 6.11 percent worldwide for its member firms compared to last year.

Hewlett-Packard Co. took an $8.8 billion charge citing “a willful effort to mislead investors and potential buyers” at Autonomy Corp., the software company it agreed to purchase last year for $10.3 billion.

Darin James is the newest partner in RubinBrown LLP's tax consulting group.