One of biggest practice management challenges facing the accounting profession today is finding and keeping talent. Thought leaders have long been aware of the looming…
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November/December 2025
One of biggest practice management challenges facing the accounting profession today is finding and keeping talent. Thought leaders have long been aware of the looming…
Financial Reporting Today
Highlights from the 22d Annual Baruch College Financial Reporting Conference
The 22d Annual Financial Reporting Conference was held at Baruch College, City University of New York, on May 2, 2024. The longstanding conference brought together…
Forté Capital's Selected Statistics Annualized Quarterly Real U.S. GDP Growth U.S. economic growth has been hovering around 2% for the past four quarters. As the…
Financial Reporting Today
Highlights from the 21st Annual Baruch College Financial Reporting Conference
The 21st Annual Financial Reporting Conference was hosted by Baruch College, City University of New York, on May 4, 2023. The longstanding conference brought together—in…
Forté Capital's Selected Statistics Year-over-Year Change in Treasury Yields, by Maturity The yield curve continues to be inverted from the 90-day bill to the 30-year…
Forté Capital's Selected Statistics U.S. Existing Home Sales Home sales, new and existing, have weakened due to the sharp increase in mortgage rates last year.…
Tax & Accounting Update is provided by Thomson Reuters and based on material published on Checkpoint, its online news and research platform. The Update is…
Ensuring Integrity: Auditors’ Biases
Highlights from the 15th Annual Baruch College Auditing Conference
The first session of the second day of the conference, titled “Auditors' Biases,” covered all manner of conscious and unconscious bias as well as how…
To The CPA Journal: Congratulations on your 90 years of service to the public and profession. You are even more vital and relevant today than…
This article is an update to the author's auditing column covering the same material in the proposal stage, published in the August 2018 issue of The…
This article contains practical guidance and support as to the appropriate disclosure of the expected effects of significant future accounting changes from new GAAP standards…
Auditors serving smaller businesses know that those clients often need help navigating the highly technical and overwhelming body of accounting standards. They also know that…
ICYMI | How Many Engagement Inspections Is Too Many?
Streamlining the Scope of Quality Control Inspections
The inspection process is a critical part of any audit firm's accounting and auditing quality control (QC) system. The lack of precise guidance in the…
‘Net Realizable Value’ Is the New ‘Market’
The Effects of ASU 2015-11 and Other Inventory Valuation Issues
This month's column highlights the principal effects of FASB's Accounting Standards Update (ASU) 2015-11, Simplifying the Measurement of Inventory. While the standard's primary impact has been…
As noted by the PCAOB in its Release 2017-001: “there are situations in which an auditor may be required by law or regulation, or voluntarily…
The June 2017 installment of this column covered “Reporting on Restatement Adjustments after an Auditor Change” (http://bit.ly/2pQMClB). This installment expands on that theme, providing guidance…
Although still in the proposal stage, there has been substantial movement by both FASB and the SEC on major issues discussed by this author in…
ICYMI | Unsolved Problems in Auditing: A Half Century Retrospective and an Update
2016 Max Block Award Winner: Outstanding Article in the Area of In Focus/Feature
Auditing has been an ever-changing discipline since its birth over 100 years ago, but how much have the challenges auditors face really evolved over the…
The Audit Report Returns to Its Roots
An Historical Perspective on Critical Audit Matters
The evolution of the standard audit report has been slow and cautious over the past century. Most recently, in 2011, the AICPA's Auditing Standards Board…
Auditors are required to communicate to audit committees or others charged with governance “significant control deficiencies,” including “material weaknesses” [as these terms are defined in…
Has the DOL Pushed the ASB Too Far?
Push Back—Now!
In April 2017, the AICPA's Auditing Standards Board (ASB) issued an Exposure Draft Proposed Statement on Auditing Standards (the ED) entitled “Forming an Opinion and…
The modern marvel of Facebook and other social networking sites has been consuming the leisure time of many Americans for quite a while now, and…
Editor's Note: The following guidance applies to non–publicly held entities. Guidance for SEC issuers under PCAOB standards may differ. Agreed-upon procedures engagements are a special type…
Editor's note: The following is a supplement to the author's “Depreciable Asset Lives: The Forgotten Estimate in GAAP,” published in the September 2016 CPA Journal.…
Death is unexpected for many people, but avoidable for none. Likewise, a sudden disability is never planned for. For business owners, being prepared for the…
AUD | Has the SEC Awakened a Sleeping Giant?
The Familiarity Threat to Auditor Independence
For over 50 years, observers have questioned whether auditors who provide consulting or other nonattest services to their clients can be independent, and regulators continue…