All Accounting & Auditing articles – Page 54
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Non-GAAP reporting smooths currency-driven volatility
As trade and tariff wars wage on, companies use non-GAAP accounting to try to explain the resulting currency volatility in reported financial results.
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GM chief accounting officer leaving for GE
Thomas Timko, chief accounting officer at General Motors, will be leaving GM to join General Electric in the same role.
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Audit leaders issue statement to new audit recruits
As a new crop of college graduates joins the audit profession, U.S. audit leaders issued a joint statement to sell them on the viability of their career path.
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Global accountants get new ethics rule on incentive payments
Accountants globally have new rules to follow around offering or accepting inducements, and they’re a little more explicitly stated than those for U.S. accountants.
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Bank of England probe latest blow to KPMG’s reputation
Accounting firm KPMG has taken some serious reputational hits over the past several months ... and they just keep on coming.
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CAQ: Control deficiencies not CAMs, but could be tied to one
A significant deficiency in internal control over financial reporting will not automatically constitute a critical audit matter that auditors will have to disclose under a new auditing standard, but it could suggest auditors will disclose a CAM related to the underlying accounting, said the Center for Audit Quality.
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CECL readiness spans the full spectrum, new poll shows
Banks appear all over the spectrum in terms of their readiness for CECL, with equal numbers implementing the new model or still in the early stages, a new poll says.
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Revenue 2.0: Work continues to adapt to new rules
Even after calendar-yer companies have filed their first-quarter reports reflecting a new way to recognize revenue, work continues to adapt to the new rules.
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MiMedx makes leadership changes amid accounting probe
MiMedx Group, a developer and marketer of regenerative and therapeutic biologics, has appointed Mark Graves as chief compliance officer. The company also is conducting a formal search to fill the newly established positions of chief accounting officer and internal auditor, amid an ongoing investigation into accounting violations.
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FASB approves tweaks to lease accounting standard
The Financial Accounting Standards Board has finalized a number of improvements to its new guidance on lease accounting, which public companies are working to adopt in 2019.
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Companies plan to automate internal controls, poll says
Companies are migrating toward automating their internal control over financial reporting, according to a recent survey by Financial Executives Research Foundation.
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Big 4 fill gap in GAAP on accounting for digital currency
With no explicit guidance in GAAP on how to account for business done in digital currency, Big 4 firms are starting to arrive at conclusions of their own.
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New standard triples revenue disclosures, Deloitte finds
Public companies are roughly tripling their revenue-related disclosures to comply with the new revenue recognition standard, according to a new analysis.
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IOSCO proposal seeks to set practices for audit committees
International regulators are developing a broad proposal to call for improvements in audit committee oversight of external auditors.
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PCAOB prepares new proposals on estimates, specialists
The PCAOB is preparing to issue new proposals in the fourth quarter on auditing accounting estimates and using the work of specialists.
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SEC requires shift to integrated XBRL filing
A new requirement for companies to adopt some new XBRL technology will produce different levels of compliance burden depending on how companies are complying now.
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Companies have new rules on accounting for contributions
Companies have some new guidance on how to account for contributions they receive and make that are not clearly governed by revenue recognition rules.
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PwC ordered to pay FDIC $625 million in Colonial Bank case
PwC has been ordered to pay the FDIC $625.3 million as a result of a long-running accounting fraud that caused the 2009 failure of Colonial Bank.
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Supreme Court decision upends state tax law compliance
A Supreme Court decision in a state sales tax case removed long-standing case law that told state governments they could only collect sales tax on commercial activity within their state borders from sellers that had a physical presence within those borders.
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SEC requires companies to move filings to inline XBRL
The SEC will require companies to integrate their XBRL and static financial statement data into a single filing beginning in 2019 for the largest entities.