Auditing

September 5, 2019 

The proposed SAS is one piece of a larger AICPA project to enhance audit quality (see the AICPA’s Enhancing Audit Quality Initiative), which launched in 2014 and aligns all AICPA audit-and-assurance-related activities to the goal of supporting firms’ ...

September 4, 2019 

The accounting profession tends to overcomplicate processes and insert extra steps to ensure quality. Even if you’ve been through a process improvement initiative, unless you continually monitor the process and look for ways to improve it, these extra ...

Arianna Campbell

August 27, 2019 

It’s a homecoming of sorts for Ellison-Taylor, who served as chair of the Maryland Association of CPAs’ Board of Directors during the 2010-11 fiscal year. She was born and raised in Baltimore and, despite her global reach ...

August 27, 2019 

While organizational agility is often critical to a company’s success, change management can be challenging for companies to navigate, especially when implementing new technologies. Material weaknesses commonly arise when change management controls ...

August 26, 2019 

, regulatory changes and more demanding clients, and it’s understandable if you’ve had little time to consider what’s ahead. These are created when the array of software, solutions and subscriptions you’ve deployed don’t play well together. One function of your firm could be using a customer relationship management (CRM) solution to handle interactions with clients...…

Mark van Leeuwen

August 21, 2019 

The AICPA is seeking feedback on the issues discussed in this paper and would like to hear from those with practical experience in such attestation engagements, including preparers of subject matter presentations, practitioners performing ...

August 19, 2019 

FoxPointe Solutions serves as an extension of The Bonadio Group’s already expansive efforts to help businesses evaluate and address threats and gaps in their existing processes and systems. The firm will continue to offer IRM solutions to current ...

August 19, 2019 

The guide provides nonauthoritative guidance and examples for preparers of financial statements, independent auditors, and valuation specialists regarding the accounting for and valuation of portfolio company investments held by investment companies ...

August 19, 2019 

Current Expected Credit Loss, or CECL, is a new standard that will change how financial institutions account for expected credit losses and, is one of the most significant changes to financial institution accounting in 40 years.

August 14, 2019 

Though there are more nuances in managing a large affordable housing property in a city than a 20-unit complex in the suburbs, there needs to be a focus on the following aspects to ensure a smooth transition no matter the property type.

August 14, 2019 

This is the 15th annual edition of the Readers’ Choice Awards. Once again, we have invited our readers to help us spotlight the technologies they most respect and trust to help them run their firms and provide client services.

August 14, 2019 

It might seem like technology is coming at us like a runaway locomotive, not even slowing down to pick up passengers, just barreling ahead with a mind of its own. New apps, new solutions, new programs, new developments, new cures for problems you didn’t even know existed – the barrage of options is endless and...…

Gail Perry