All Accounting & Auditing articles – Page 85
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FASB: future credit losses required in financial statements
A new Accounting Standards Update from FASB means that companies will be using even more forward-looking information in their financial statements to alert investors of potential credit losses yet to materialize. Tammy Whitehouse reports.
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Volume rises on call for disclosures regarding accounting changes
With the second quarter rapidly coming to a close for calendar-year public companies, now might be a good time to take a fresh look at how much the company is saying about its plans to adopt new accounting standards. The call for incrementally more information is getting louder. Tammy Whitehouse ...
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FASB proposes another tweak to consolidation rules
Even as new rules on consolidation take hold in 2016, the Financial Accounting Standards Board is proposing a tweak to the guidance, and it might propose more change in the future. Tammy Whitehouse has more.
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Valuation framework seeks to define ‘how much’ is enough
The valuation profession is looking for more feedback on an idea to develop some new performance criteria, a proposal that should make those in the financial reporting supply chain sit up and take notice. Tammy Whitehouse has more.
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Use of non-GAAP grows in proxy statements
According to new information from Audit Analytics, recent statements and papers from regulators and advisory firms suggest a lack of compliance with non-GAAP accounting rules could be perceived as a key regulatory risk.
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Benchmarking your compliance program
The Department of Justice is poised to consider benchmarking as a criteria for determining how far certain companies have failed to enact adequate internal controls against wrongdoing. But what are the benchmarks for benchmarking itself? Jose Tabuena reports.
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Heightened scrutiny, increased documentation & a harsh new normal for internal controls
As auditors require more information from companies, and companies push back against what they feel are excessive demands for details, a consensus that works for everybody remains elusive. Tammy Whitehouse has more.
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Strategic risk weighs on executives, survey finds
Strategic risk is a big threat to companies compared with other risks, yet many executives say they fall short in effectively managing and mitigating such risks. That’s the key finding of a new survey from Grant Thornton, which finds almost two-thirds of executives say strategic risk is a highly significant ...
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Podcast: How the CCO role is transforming in financial services
In the latest edition of the Compliance Week podcast we talk to Cynthia Dow, who leads the legal officers practice at Russell Reynolds Associates, an executive search consultancy. She was the author of a recent report, “How the Chief Compliance Officer role is Transforming Across Financial Services,” examining the changing ...
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FASB finalizes new rule to accelerate recognition of loan losses
FASB has finalized its long-awaited standard giving companies a new, more forward-looking way to account for credit losses in their portfolios. The standard will require companies to reflect expected credit losses on financial assets based on their historical experience, current market conditions, and even forecasts. Tammy Whitehouse has an in-depth ...
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Big 4 polls say companies are stalled on big accounting changes
More Big 4 surveys on big accounting changes suggest companies are starting to face a kind of paralysis over how to move forward and make it all work. On revenue recognition a recent KPMG poll suggests the vast majority of companies are still trying to digest how it will affect ...
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COSO offers up new ERM framework for review
The Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission, or COSO, has unveiled a proposed redraft of its 2004 ERM framework. “We wanted to create a more robust focus on risk in the strategic planning process,” says PwC Partner Dennis Chesley, a lead partner for the revision project. Tammy Whitehouse ...
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Integrating technology into compliance programs still poses significant challenges
Implementing powerful technologies to improve compliance programs isn’t exactly like waving a magic wand. It requires a great deal of collaboration, time to interpret relevant data, patience, trial and error, and a vision for how to harness the full potential of a category of tool nobody is really certain how ...
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The case for principles-based accounting
The debate over which is the better accounting standards philosophy–principles or rules—rages on. As a 40-year veteran of the auditor and preparer community, IASB member Gary Kabureck is lending his unique perspective to the discussion.
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FASB proposes guidance on how to reflect non-financial asset shed
FASB is offering yet another accounting proposal meant to help smooth over implementation of the new revenue recognition standard. The change would apply to an area of the Accounting Standards Codification that was amended to comply with the new revenue standard in order to aid compliance with the rules around ...
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SEC issues order permitting Inline XBRL
The SEC is now allowing companies to comply with their XBRL filing requirement by integrating tagged data into HTML filings, hopeful that companies will take advantage of the voluntary allowance to improve the quality of data and perhaps even reduce the cost of compliance. Tammy Whitehouse has more.
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More time, cost required in 2015 to comply with SOX, survey says
A majority of the 1,500 companies polled by Protiviti said the number of hours they devoted internally to Sarbanes-Oxley compliance in 2015 increased by more than 10 percent. Tammy Whitehouse has more study results inside.
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Audit firm market shares show little shift
Accounting & auditing blogger Tammy Whitehouse looks at market share for the whole population of U.S. public companies. While not very drastic, says Whitehouse, there have been some notable changes to the top 10 firms.
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Companies sweat data details more than IT under new lease rules
Preparers seem more concerned about how they will gather and manage the data they need to comply with new lease accounting rules than they are about new IT system needs, according to a recent Deloitte poll. Tammy Whitehouse has an in-depth look at the survey.
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Inside the struggle to define, measure, and manage corporate culture
An organization’s culture is an important cornerstone of any compliance effort, but it remains a notoriously slippery thing. Experts at the Compliance Week 2016 conference provided their insights on how to better define culture so it can be adequately managed and measured. Tammy Whitehouse has more.