However, the study made by Robert J. Warth-Ethics in the Accounting Profession- concludes the necessity of better planning of the structure of education, improvements in the measure of compliance and a variation in the concentration on ethics traini Continue Reading...
Ethics in Business: Accounting Standards Accounting Standards Ethics in Business Accounting Standards The objective of this work is to address the relationship among the FASB, SEC, and PCAOB and to provide explanations of basic accounting theorie Continue Reading...
New PCAOB Reporting Requirements A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO THE NEW PCAOB REPORTING A Practical Guide to the New PCAOB Reporting Requirements PCAOB is a Public Company Accounting Oversight Board established by Sarbanes-Oxley Act to oversee the auditin Continue Reading...
Ethical and Legal obligations in financial reporting is extremely important in today's world, fraught as it is with corporate frauds and accounting scams and scandals of every other sort. One Company, the Thornburg Investment Company, has taken a fir Continue Reading...
Business Finance "The Commission" refers to the Securities Exchange Commission, which is the primary governing body for financial markets. "The Board" is the Public Companies Accounting Oversight Board. The SEC oversees the Board. The SEC therefore Continue Reading...
accounting discipline has taken a public relations beating over the past few years as a result of scandals in corporate accounting; much of this abuse has been well-deserved. Regulations regarding conflicts of interest, independent monitoring, repor Continue Reading...
Sarbanes-Oxley. The political pressure of the past several years following the dot.com bubble and the collapse of several major companies created a need for new securities legislation, which culminated last year in the Sarbanes-Oxley Investor Protec Continue Reading...
This process has been ongoing since then. One of the major differences between the two standards is going to be that whereas GAAP emphasizes rules, the IFRS is a principle-based approach. Implementing a principles-based approach has significant imp Continue Reading...
As one commentator has stated, the presence of two different sets of accounting rules, each plagued by imprecision and subject to multiple interpretations, gives corporations "two different bites at the apple." (6) What used to be seen as an economi Continue Reading...
That is the beauty of the successful and rising platform established through successful investments; it all becomes quite circular. Then, by reinvesting and refinancing earnings, everything becomes stronger. Just as easily, however, this corporatio Continue Reading...
While the information is not as technical as the Journal of Accountancy, the publication is important to keeping firm members caught up at a glance upon general business issues. Information about the advertisements carried in the publication includ Continue Reading...
Ethics and Financial Reporting Role of ethics In financial reporting, ethics assumes a key role. Shareholders must feel confident enough to trust a company with their money. Financial reporting is the representation of all information about a compa Continue Reading...
