Accounting

November 1, 2017 

Now a study in the American Accounting Association journal The Accounting Review assesses the 18-year-old SEC rule (which was largely integrated into the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002), and questions whether investors have benefited from it at all.

October 31, 2017 

One in three victims spent at least $50,000 to recover from a cyber attack, yet rebuilding reputation and customer trust can take more than a year.

October 31, 2017 

Verady has been working closely with Aprio over the past several years to assist with auditing one of the world's largest cryptocurrency payment processing companies. Today, Verady officially launched the platform that made all of this possible, VeraNet.

October 31, 2017 

Demand for financing is down across the board among all size businesses. Financing for planned growth or expansion, including acquisitions not yet realized was down from 66 percent in Q2 2017 to 62 percent in Q3 2017.

October 30, 2017 

Annual worldwide corporate R&D spending broke through $700bn in annual investment, according to an annual analysis of R&D spending across 1000 global public companies by PwC’s Strategy&. It shows corporate R&D spending increased a steady 3% in the past year, bouncing back from less than 1% increase previously. However, in a global survey with 562...…

October 30, 2017 

Intuit plans to integrate this feature into QuickBooks Online making it easy for its retail customers to accurately track and file sales tax returns on-time, every time.

October 30, 2017 

With the holiday shopping season just around the corner, consumers say they will spend an average $967.13 this year, according to the annual survey conducted by Prosper Insights & Analytics for the National Retail Federation and released today.

October 30, 2017 

The most important amendment raises the threshold for the SBA’s Quick Bond Application for contract surety bonds that small construction businesses can benefit from. The increase in the eligible contract amount enlarges the scope of project ...

October 30, 2017 

The indictment in the district court for Washington D.C. states that Manafort laundered more than $18 million to buy luxury gods and services without paying any tax on the income. This enabled the GIP strategist to support a “lavish lifestyle. “

October 28, 2017 

Robert Mueller, the former FBI director who has been appointed as an independent investigator in the issue, has broad ranging powers to indict, so the charges could range from direct involvement in election malfeasance, or for impeding the ...

October 26, 2017 

According to a survey conducted by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), instances of fraud are increasing nationwide — both in the number of incidents and the dollar amount of the losses.

October 25, 2017 

Wolters Kluwer’s Integrated Audit Approach is expanding further to include TeamMate Analytics, easy-to-use tools to help auditors run analytics and, more importantly, interpret the results.