Financial reporting

(Bloomberg) It’s too early to tell whether Star Wars: The Force Awakens will become the biggest grossing film of all time, but the really interesting question is whether the movie will ever go into profit.

Financial reporting is increasingly complex, and many companies find it challenging to comply with the disclosure requirements of the standards while providing readers with information that is meaningful and understandable.

For the fourth quarter in a row, Top 10 Firm BDO USA led large audit firms in new Securities and Exchange Commission audit clients, with 13 new engagements and a net gain of eight in the third quarter of 2015.

In the modern marketplace and competitive landscape, one of the most common questions, complaints and areas of focus for management is the concept of adding value.

Interim CEOs engage in considerably more earnings manipulation than their permanent successors, according to a new study.

Companies are taking steps on their own to make their financial reports and disclosures more understandable, according to a new report.

Finance leaders are under pressure to better manage margins and earnings performance, cash flow and cybersecurity, according to a new survey.

A new study predicts the Securities and Exchange Commission’s final regulations on clawbacks of incentive based compensation for corporate executives could backfire and only encourage companies to avoid the kinds of financial restatements that might trigger a clawback.

Expense management software developer Certify has released its annual list of the most eye-opening business expenses submitted by travelers in the past year.

The Securities and Exchange Commission adopted final rules Friday to allow companies to offer and sell securities through crowdfunding.

Reporting of non-financial performance data is a problem for more than half of nonprofits, according to a new survey.

The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and the Institute of Management Accountants held a panel discussion at St. John’s University in New York on Wednesday evening to discuss how accountants and C-suite executives need to manage business risks.

IBM’s Ginni Rometty is grappling with the second federal probe into revenue recognition in as many years—evidence of the accounting challenges technology companies like hers face as they shift from selling hardware to software services.

Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. shares slumped as Chief Executive Officer J. Michael Pearson’s defense of the drugmaker’s accounting and ethics failed to resonate with investors fretting about its relationship with a mail-order pharmacy.

The oil and gas industry’s earnings season is barely underway, and already there’s been $6.5 billion in writedowns.

A senior Republican senator said lawmakers need better data on Puerto Rico’s financial situation before helping the island, as the Obama administration and the territory’s governor stepped up their warnings about the depths of its crisis.

The dizzying rise and rapid fall in the shares of drugmaker Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. is eerily familiar to Canadian investors still smarting from the last time a small market was dominated by single stocks—BlackBerry Ltd. and Nortel Networks Corp.

There is a powerful alternative that is increasingly being used to deal with excess problematic inventory: corporate barter.

The Anti-Fraud Collaboration introduced a free set of online self-study courses Tuesday for corporate ethics training that can provide continuing professional education credit.

Three former top executives of Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP avoided potential prison terms after a Manhattan jury failed to agree on whether they lied to investors in the run-up to the largest law-firm bankruptcy in history.