Financial reporting

However, companies are not prioritizing a tech budget to address these issues.

The conglomerate’s auditors, PwC Arata, could not form an opinion on its results.

Billion-dollar firms continue to dominate in the audit market.

Class-action securities lawsuit filings alleging accounting wrongdoing rose 33 percent to 93 last year, the highest level since 2008 and the fourth consecutive annual increase, according to a new report, while settlement values for accounting-related cases reached their highest level of the past nine years.

The American Institute of CPAs’ Financial Reporting Executive Committee has issued 11 new working drafts to help four different industries deal with the upcoming revenue recognition accounting standard.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has released an accounting standards update that changes the treatment of the amortization of premiums for purchased callable debt securities, shortening the amortization period for the premium to the earliest call date.

As companies prepare for the new accounting standard that takes effect in 2018, there’s no shortage of apprehension among financial executives.

More than a third of CFOs’ time is being spent as strategic advisors as they move beyond the traditional financial management role, according to a new survey by Grant Thornton.

Eighty percent of CFOs at U.S. companies have not yet begun the transition to the upcoming leasing standard, according to a new survey.

The British grocery company agrees to a 214 million pound penalty to resolve regulatory probes.

The new revenue recognition standard is going to force many companies to make new disclosures, but they shouldn’t wait until the last minute to get ready, warns a recent report.

Profs. Miller and Bahnson analyze a quartet of futile pursuits, from political interference with standard-setting to convergence.

Companies and mutual funds might be able to use a more convenient version of Extensible Business Reporting Language in their financial filings, under a new rule proposed by the SEC.

The Governmental Accounting Standards Board has released an “omnibus” statement providing guidance on a wide range of accounting and financial reporting issues that have been uncovered during the implementation and application of some of GASB’s earlier pronouncements for state and local governments.

The Anti-Fraud Collaboration, a coalition of the Center for Audit Quality, Financial Executives International, the Institute of Internal Auditors and the National Association of Corporate Directors, has released a new report on how organizations on can deter fraud and improve financial reporting.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has given its approval to the 2017 GAAP Financial Reporting Taxonomy, the annually updated set of accounting standards built using computer-readable tags.

The latest edition of the book covers recent changes from the Financial Accounting Standards Board.

The new chief of the International Integrated Reporting Council is aiming to build support for integrated reporting in the U.S. as the IIRC begins to gather feedback on how companies are implementing it.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has released an update to improve the financial reporting on pensions and other post-retirement benefits.

With as much as $3 billion on the line, Jon Corzine is trying again to explain away a spectacular blot on his business legacy.