All Accounting & Auditing articles – Page 66
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Audit technology pushes companies to get data in order
To stay in step with audit technology, companies need to start thinking hard about their own technological capabilities to stand up to the audit process.
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Companies make progress, face more work on revenue
Third-quarter filings suggest companies are making progress implementing new revenue rules, but still have plenty of work to do in the fourth quarter.
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Donnelley Financial Solutions raises bar for financial disclosure management
Donnelley Financial Solutions announced the release of ActiveDisclosure 3, the newest generation of its cloud-based financial disclosure management solution, ActiveDisclosure. By integrating with Microsoft Office Online, ActiveDisclosure 3 allows multiple users to simultaneously create and edit their Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents from most devices.
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Netwrix Auditor 9.5 enables firms to improve detection of threat actors
Netwrix Corporation, a provider of a visibility platform for user behavior analysis and risk mitigation in hybrid environments, announced the release of Netwrix Auditor 9.5, providing customers with security intelligence to proactively reduce risk and spot threat actors.
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Article2018’s internal audit agenda: culture, technology, and change
Internal audit plans for the coming year will reflect more consideration of corporate culture and the risks it might pose to the company’s success.
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SEC comments on leasing expected this year-end
If history is any indicator, companies can expect the SEC to begin scrutinizing disclosures about the pending new lease accounting requirements at this year-end.
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Migration to simpler goodwill test will be slow, data says
FASB may have given companies a simpler way to determine whether goodwill must be marked down, but not all public companies are rushing to adopt it.
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Obsidian Energy to pay $8.5M for accounting fraud charges
Obsidian Energy said it has reached an $8.5 million settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to resolve accounting fraud charges filed earlier this year.
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MassMutual appoints chief accounting officer and controller
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (MassMutual) has appointed Sean Newth as chief accounting officer and corporate controller, effective immediately.
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CBRE Group appoints chief accounting officer
CBRE Group, the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, has appointed Arlin Gaffner as chief accounting officer.
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PCAOB reduces budget, accounting support fee for 2018
The PCAOB is reducing its budget in 2018, along with the accounting support fee companies must pay to fund the board’s audit regulatory activities.
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Tax reform pace could produce major year-end reporting
If tax reform is enacted by the end of 2017, companies could be facing a mad scramble to report the effects in their year-end financial statements.
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Calling out usual audit ills, PCAOB also ponders next steps
While acknowledging audit firms have taken measures to address adverse inspection findings, the PCAOB also is starting to ask if the firms are doing enough.
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Wells Fargo Securities names co-heads of Investment Banking Coverage
Wells Fargo Securities, the investment banking and capital markets business of Wells Fargo & Company, has named John Hudson and Kristin Lesher as the new co-heads of Investment Banking Coverage, effective immediately.
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Biohaven appoints SVP of finance
Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company and its wholly owned subsidiary, Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, has appointed Scott Phillips as senior vice president of finance. He will focus on further advancing Biohaven's infrastructure to support the company's accounting, external reporting and finance capabilities.
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Early revenue adopters report little change to numbers
Early adopters of the new revenue standard are big companies with little change to their reported revenue numbers, but more substantial change to disclosures.
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ArticleAuditors will start listing, describing critical audit matters in 2019
Auditors have been dispatched by the PCAOB and the SEC to begin listing and describing in audit reports where they had the most difficulty in each audit.
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Offshore tax maneuvers add pressure to tax reform
A new leak of millions of documents revealing the tax avoidance strategies of power players worldwide is putting pressure on the U.S. tax reform movement.
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Adverse internal control findings tapered off in 2016
For the first time since 2012, a slightly smaller number of companies in 2016 reported adverse findings on internal control, according to a new analysis.
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Rite Aid names chief accounting officer
Rite Aid has promoted Matt Schroeder to senior vice president, chief accounting officer and treasurer, effective immediately. He will continue to report to Darren Karst, the company’s senior executive vice president, CFO and chief administrative officer.