PCAOB July 9, 2026
Here’s Who’s Serving on the PCAOB’s Inspections Modernization Council
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board on Thursday revealed the names of the 12 people who will serve on its new Inspections Modernization Council.
July 6, 2015
Thomson Reuters Issues Updates to Checkpoint Audit Portfolio
Thomson Reuters has released the 2015 editions of its widely-used series of audit guides and related practice aids for multiple industries, including commercial entities, nonprofit organizations, local governments, and employee benefit plans.
July 1, 2015
New Legal Confirmation Service Helps Auditors and Lawyers
The platform streamlines everything from preparing and post-dating letters for automated release, obtaining client approvals, tracking responses and receiving documented updates.
June 30, 2015
Group Offers Sustainability Accounting Standards for Consumption Industries
Example disclosure topics include food safety, labeling & marketing integrity, climate change adaptation, and supply chain management. The standards average six topics per industry, and 71 percent of metrics are quantitative.
June 26, 2015
AICPA Issues New Guide to Help CPAs Interpret and Apply SSARS No. 21
The new guide, available as an eBook and in print format, was written to assist CPAs in interpreting and applying SSARS No. 21, as well as to provide interpretative guidance and implementation strategies for all preparation, compilation and ...
June 16, 2015
Accounting Firm Launches Risk Management Solution for Financial Institutions
To help financial institutions more effectively manage model risk and respond to examiner expectations, Crowe Horwath LLP, one of the largest public accounting, consulting and technology firms in the U.S., has introduced the Crowe Model Risk Manager ...
June 15, 2015
Awards Spotlight Innovations in Tax & Accounting Technologies
The winners of the 12th annual Tax & Accounting Technology Innovation Awards, all cloud-based solutions, are examples of this new reality of on-demand information and business agility.
June 10, 2015
AICPA Makes Recommendations to IRS on Accounting Method Changes
The AICPA recommended that to the extent taxpayers may make accounting method changes for mischaracterized R&E expenditures with a section 481(a) adjustment they should receive audit protection for prior years.
June 8, 2015
10 Lean Six Sigma Audit Considerations
The application of Lean Six Sigma principals has helped countless organizations objectively re-evaluate and streamline their production processes. Lean Six Sigma is a consulting methodology gaining favor in the accounting profession for its focus not ...
June 5, 2015
How to Handle Short Time-Frame Tax Audits
As if getting audited wasn’t bad enough, now the IRS has added a new twist: the short timeframe audit. With these types of audits, it is possible that an audit case could be closed by the IRS before your client has a chance to show you the letter. This ar
June 4, 2015
Quality of Employee Benefit Plan Audits Must Be Improved, Says Report
Accounting and advisory firm Baker Tilly Virchow Krause, LLP (Baker Tilly) has rearticulated the necessity of improving audit quality after a May 28th United States Department of Labor (DOL) report on its inspection of 2011 employee benefit plan audits.
May 27, 2015
Center for Audit Quality Launches Online Video Series Highlighting Critical Issues
The Center for Audit Quality (www.TheCAQ.org) has launched an online video series that aims to highlight critical issues facing the public company auditing profession and the markets.
May 20, 2015
QuickBooks, NetSuite, Intacct, Xero and FreshBooks Earn High Marks in Accounting Software Rankings
Four platforms earn Leader status while Intacct tops overall satisfaction rankings in crowdsourced report