Auditing March 4, 2026
SEC and PCAOB Enforcement Plummets
In 2025, the SEC brought 68% fewer accounting and auditing actions than in 2024, and the PCAOB finalized 27% fewer actions over the same period, according to Cornerstone Research.
September 2, 2015
Thomson Reuters Checkpoint Releases Updated Single Audit Solution
Updates to Thomson Reuters Checkpoint provide customers with a single audit tool for the first time that complies fully with the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) recently released 2015 Compliance Supplement. Specifically, this edition of PPC's ...
August 20, 2015
A Cannabis Niche for Accountants? Working With Businesses that Grow and Sell Marijuana
No matter how you personally feel on the subject, the reality is that legal Cannabis is becoming a booming business, ripe with opportunities for an accounting practice to work and consult with businesses in the marketplace on a full range of tax ...
August 19, 2015
Financial Accounting Foundation Appoints New Chair and Members to Private Company Council
The Board of Trustees of the Financial Accounting Foundation (FAF) has appointed a new chair and three new members of the Private Company Council (PCC) to three-year terms that begin on January 1, 2016. Six PCC members were reappointed.
August 18, 2015
New Version of Bloomberg BNA Tax Managment Portfolio Analyzes Trends in Unclaimed Property Laws
Bloomberg BNA has released a new edition of Unclaimed Property, its Tax Management Portfolio providing in-depth analysis and practical insights from prominent practitioners on escheatment and unclaimed property laws.
August 18, 2015
3 Tips to Achieve Financial Success
Ultimately, each person must be his or her own best financial advocate. It may take a team of professionals in various fields to provide retirees with the good life, but individuals need to be their own most valuable player for their well-being.
August 17, 2015
Nonprofits: It’s Time To Claim Social Enterprise
The term “social enterprise” is everywhere these days. And it’s no surprise. While there’s been a long tradition of social impact work in the nonprofit sector, there’s a growing wave who want to see the social impact stretch beyond the traditional ...
August 17, 2015
Penn State Accounting Professor, Army Veteran Receives AICPA Education Award
The award, presented by the American Institute of CPAs annually since 1985, recognizes full-time accounting professors who are outstanding educators and have achieved national recognition in the accounting profession.
August 13, 2015
College Accounting Degree Enrollments Hit All-Time High
The Trends report found optimism from both universities and firms that the growth of the accounting profession will continue. Ninety-seven percent of bachelor’s programs and seventy percent of master’s programs report that they expect their ...
August 9, 2015
Thomson Reuters Launches Forensic Accounting Certificate Program
The program focuses on forensic accounting engagement, auditing for fraud prevention, detection, and response, litigation support, and dispute resolution.
August 4, 2015
Center for Audit Quality Funds Research by U. Wisconsin Professor
A new research project by the Wisconsin School of Business aimed at providing auditors, regulators, and policy-makers with a model for understanding and interpreting audit studies is one of three projects to receive funding from the Center for Audit Quali
August 3, 2015
Free Report Focuses on Compliance with New SSARS 21 Standards
A new report called The Potential Pitfalls of SSARS 21 is now available from Thomson Reuters Checkpoint. The report focuses on significant changes to the Statements on Standards for Accounting and Review Services (SSARS) to help CPAs avoid potential ...
July 29, 2015
Most Accountants Now Prefer Cloud-Based Paperless Payments, Says Survey
According to a recent business payments study fielded by a collection of accounting industry leaders, more than 50 percent of accounting professionals support the idea of moving to paperless payments with 41 percent intending to adopt a cloud-based ...