The AICPA Auditing Standards Board (ASB) is proposing changes to the definition of materiality in its standards for auditors and attestation engagements to eliminate inconsistencies with the ...

Navigating the world of business finances can sometimes feel like wading through an alphabet soup of acronyms, jargon, and inscrutable terminology. This is especially true when it comes to the ...

Materiality is a term used in accounting and the law, in relation to information disclosed in financial statements that affects decisions made by the people who read them. Deciding whether something ...

The goal of conducting an audit and preparing an associating audit report is to allow the auditors to express an opinion regarding whether or not a company's financial statements were prepared in ...

Registrable superannuation entities (RSEs) must do more to ensure asset valuations in financial reports are reliable and improve disclosure of sponsorship and advertising expenses.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has released a report summarizing its inspection findings between 2004 and 2007 of eight of the largest domestic accounting firms, outlining the many ...