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AICPA Proposes Six-Point Plan to Improve Audit Performance
May 15th, 2015
The American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) today released a Six-Point Plan to Improve Audits that provides a roadmap for the profession’s continued journey to audit excellence. The plan concentrates on financial statement audits for private companies, employee benefit plans and governmental entities in ...
AICPA urges FAF to maintain momentum on private company issues
May 13th, 2015
The AICPA is encouraging the Financial Accounting Foundation (FAF) to maintain the commitment to private company accounting that it has displayed through the work of the Private Company Council (PCC) along with FASB. The board of trustees of FAF, ...
AICPA Makes Suggestions on How Business Income Tax Can be Simplified
April 6th, 2015
In a letter submitted on Tuesday to the Senate Finance Committee Tax Reform Working Group on Business Income Tax, the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) made the following four recommendations about how to simplify business income tax. 1. Cash method of ...
AICPA provides feedback on tax reform proposals
January 13th, 2015
“The AICPA supports comprehensive tax reform.” These were the words of Troy Lewis, chair of the AICPA’s Tax Executive Committee, in a letter sent to Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., the new chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, ...
The Association of International Certified Professional Accountants named new Chairman
July 19th, 2017
Kimberly N. Ellison-Taylor, CPA, CGMA, has been named chairman of the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants (the Association) – a global accounting organization formed in 2017 by members of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) and the ...
Andrew Miskin named first Chair of Association of International Certified Professional Accountants
November 1st, 2016
Tim Christen will serve as initial Vice Chair of Association that will advance public and management accounting globally Andrew Miskin, FCMA, CGMA, has been named the first chair of the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants (the Association), the ...
Accounting bodies team up to form new group
June 24th, 2016
The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (Cima) and American Institute of CPAs (Aicpa) have joined forces to set up a new association to represent the breadth of the accounting profession. The new association, expected to be launched next year, ...
IBM Big Data expert shares tips with CPAs
May 20th, 2016
Paul Zikopoulos uses the mall as an example of how Big Data can be used for meaningful business insights. When you go to the mall, who doesn’t sign onto the “free” wireless internet service so you can use your ...
Key areas of risk in the 2015 audit cycle
October 13th, 2015
Professional skepticism and internal control over financial reporting are two key areas for auditors that have attracted the focus of regulators in recent years. These areas are among those addressed in one of two risk alerts published Monday by ...
Can auditors expand assurance to meet investors’ needs?
August 4th, 2015
A company’s audited financial statements are among the many pieces of information investors consider when they evaluate where to allocate resources. But news releases, company presentations, additional information in annual reports, and non-GAAP key performance indicators and financial metrics ...
