All Accounting & Auditing articles – Page 86
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Financial reporting has room for improvement, says KPMG
A recent KPMG report underscores some pretty widespread deficiencies when it comes to business reporting. Whether companies are failing to note the impact of new products or how much injury time they have suffered, most can stand to improve the state of their annual reports. Paul Hodgson has more survey ...
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Recent XBRL data improvement seen as first of more to come
According to the XBRL U.S. Data Quality Committee, public companies reduced the number of errors in their filings by 64 percent in the first quarter of 2016 compared with first quarter 2015. Tammy Whitehouse spoke with Committee Chair Mike Starr, who says he anticipates bigger improvements ahead due to continued ...
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ArticleSpotting the difference between ‘significant deficiency’ and ‘material weakness’
Material misstatements involve mistakes large enough, surely, to involve some kind of internal control shortcoming that allowed the misstatement to occur in the first place. So why aren’t more internal control reporting and auditing processes helping to identify control lapses in advance of material misstatements? Tammy Whitehouse explores.
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SEC offers views on adopting new lease rules
Getting a jump start on adopting the new accounting requirements for leasing? Good news: According to the SEC, companies will need to apply the rules to just the three years presented in the complete set of financial statements, not the five years worth of selected data provided in the financial ...
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Transparency penalty? Companies pondering revenue adoption, beware
Companies that are considering how they will adopt the new revenue standard should take into account whether they might expect to access the capital markets in a stock offering anytime soon after putting the new accounting to work. It could affect just how much revenue they’ll need to restate. Tammy ...
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KPMG names new executive director
Jose Rodriguez has been named partner in charge and executive director of KPMG’s Audit Committee Institute.
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Adopting the 2013 COSO framework: fiscal 2015 update
Data gathered by Protiviti and Audit Analytics from fiscal 2015 annual reports show that the implementation of the COSO framework for audited internal control over financial reporting is almost complete: 96 percent of companies reviewed used the 2013 Framework, in comparison to 82 percent for fiscal 2014. Tammy Whitehouse reports.
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Fraudsters have tech edge over companies, KPMG study shows
A study from KPMG that looks at fraudster’s typical profile says perpetrators are gaining an edge over corporate anti-fraud controls by making better use of technology than the companies they route. The report says weak controls were a factor in 61 percent of frauds through 2016. More study details from ...
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Expanded auditor report: take two
The PCAOB has issued a reproposal to amend and expand the auditor’s report, keeping in mind a similar proposal from the United Kingdom’s Financial Reporting Council. Columnist Robert Herz says the U.K. proposal has been well received and signals a fundamental change in auditor reporting across the world.
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Mind the Non-GAAP
Why all of the sudden and intense regulatory interest on non-GAAP measures? While the common use of this practice raises concerns of accounting misdeeds, the facts behind non-GAAP paint a different picture that regulators would be wise to notice.
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ArticleAccounting leaders need a wake-up call on revenue recognition
New revenue recognition standards will come into force within 18 months, but accounting leaders everywhere don’t seem to be in a hurry to undertake the huge amount of work it will take to get ready. Tammy Whitehouse reports from the Compliance Week 2016 conference.
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Datawatch brings faster trading analytics
Datawatch has announced the general availability of Datawatch Panopticon 13.7, providing faster visual data analysis for trading, risk and compliance markets. The new features enable buy-side and sell-side firms, and exchanges to perform Big Data analysis of e-trading data both in real-time as well as intra-day and historically to gain ...
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Deloitte names new AML and economic sanctions leaders
Frederick Curry has been named Deloitte Advisory anti-money laundering (AML) and economic sanctions practice leader. Michael Shepard has been named Deloitte Global AML, economic sanctions and financial crimes leader. They succeed Alison Clew who will retire in May.
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Largest companies more often miss filing deadlines, new report shows
A recent report from Audit Analytics finds that large accelerated filers, or those with a public float greater than $700 million, are finding it difficult to get their annual reports filed on time. In 2010, says Tammy Whitehouse, only 10 large accelerated filers gave notice to the markets that their ...
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PwC proposes SOC 2+ to dig into third-party risk
PwC has developed a framework to add to the assurance provided by an SOC 2 report (an AICPA report focused on controls around security, processing integrity, and privacy). PwC calls it an “SOC 2+” approach, building on the SOC 2 reporting principles by allowing a more independent, standardized assessment. Tammy ...
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FASB looks to cut out that ‘second step’ of goodwill accounting
A proposed rule might remove the costly, complex, and time-consuming calculations of a company’s fair value that are required when its fair market value drops below its carrying value. In other words, goodwill accounting is about to get a little goodwill of its own. Tammy Whitehouse reports.
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Compliance metrics and dashboards: building your case
Jose Tabuena explores how companies and, specifically, chief compliance officers can demonstrate the effectiveness of their compliance programs and be seen as creditworthy in the eyes of the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines.
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SEC issues new guidance on use of non-GAAP accounting
The SEC has updated its Compliance & Disclosures Interpretations guidance with a dozen new Q&As focused on how companies might report financial information outside the realm of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles without also running afoul of financial reporting requirements. More from Tammy Whitehouse.
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Restatements take another turn for the better, Audit Analytics says
The total number of restatements that were serious enough to undermine reliance on prior financials fell to 161, the lowest level since 2006, according to the latest data from Audit Analytics. And the overall number of restatements dropped 12.7 percent in 2015 from the year before. Tammy Whitehouse has more ...
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PCAOB sanctions Hong Kong firm, U.S. affiliate
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has settled a disciplinary action against a Hong Kong firm and its U.S. affiliate over audit problems involving a U.S.-listed company based in China. Tammy Whitehouse has more.