Recently issued FASB standards for revenue recognition, lease accounting, and the private company variable-interest entity (VIE) consolidation have led to companies’ and practitioners’ asking a host ...

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Accounting, auditing and accountability underpin the transparency and integrity of both private enterprises and public sector institutions. Traditional accounting practices—whether financial, ...

An audit trail consists of records that document every step in a business transaction. This may mean invoices for payments issued or sales contracts documenting revenue. Payroll and other human ...

If your company gets an unqualified audit opinion, that's good news. It doesn't mean the auditor's unqualified, it means they've gone over your financial statements and have no reservations: your ...

The window for “wait and see” is closing. Companies must have a clear AI adoption road map for finance and audit in 2026.

ST. LOUIS, December 10, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Becker Professional Education, the global leader in accounting exam review and continuing professional education, today announced the launch of its new ...

Accounting professionals have debated how, or if, to conduct audit work from remote locations for years, but the COVID-19 pandemic quickly accelerated the practice when travel and in-office work ...

Imagine a high-tech control room, with wall-sized screens full of KPIs and digital renderings of transaction flows, and rows of monitoring stations staffed by vigilant professionals who are keeping an ...