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Governmental Audit Quality Center analyzes 2025 OMB Compliance Supplement

December 09, 2025

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) posted the delayed 2025 OMB Compliance Supplement, an annual resource for practitioners involved in single audits and federal grant compliance.

  • accounting and auditing

FASB Issues New Standard to Improve Interim Reporting

December 08, 2025

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) today issued an Accounting Standards Update (ASU) that improves the navigability of the required interim reporting disclosures and clarifies when that guidance is applicable. It also provides additional guidance on what disclosures should be provided in interim reporting periods.

  • accounting and auditing

New SEC chair to CPAs: ‘Back to basics’

December 08, 2025

Back to the basics. Paul Atkins, installed as SEC chair in April, hammered that home Monday when he addressed attendees of the AICPA Conference on Current SEC & PCAOB Developments in Washington, D.C.

  • accounting and auditing

FASB Issues New Standard to Add Guidance on Accounting for Government Grants by Businesses

December 04, 2025

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) today published an Accounting Standards Update (ASU) that establishes authoritative guidance on the accounting for government grants received by business entities.

  • accounting and auditing

FASB Issues New Standard to Improve Hedge Accounting Guidance

November 25, 2025

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) today published an Accounting Standards Update (ASU) to clarify and improve hedge accounting guidance.

  • accounting and auditing

FASB Issues Post-Implementation Review Report for Its Leases Standard

November 20, 2025

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) today issued the report on Post-Implementation Review: Leases (Topic 842).

  • accounting and auditing

FASB Improves Guidance on Purchased Loans

November 12, 2025

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) today published an Accounting Standards Update (ASU) that improves the accounting for purchased loans.

  • accounting and auditing

DOL Walks Back Biden-Era Independent Contractor Rule: What Employers Need to Know

November 05, 2025

In a significant development for employers nationwide, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced it will not enforce the Biden-era 2024 Independent Contractor (IC) Rule. While the rule remains in effect for private litigation, this shift in federal enforcement policy signals a more employer-friendly approach to worker classification at the federal level.

  • accounting and auditing
  • business and industry
  • advocacy - federal
  • federal tax

GenAI Research Tool Offers Information and Insights from AICPA’s Professional Library

October 27, 2025

The American Institute of CPAs has created an artificial intelligence-enabled tool, Josi, that provides secure, direct access to the AICPA’s professional standards, authoritative guidance and related information.

  • accounting and auditing
  • technology and cybersecurity
  • federal tax

FASB Issues Standard on Derivatives Scope Refinements

September 29, 2025

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) today published an Accounting Standards Update (ASU) that addresses stakeholders’ concerns about (1) the application of derivative accounting to contracts with features based on the operations or activities of one of the parties to the contract and (2) the diversity in accounting for share-based noncash consideration from a customer that is consideration for the transfer of goods or services.

  • accounting and auditing

How to make your engagement letters (artificially) intelligent

September 24, 2025

With a bit of time, training and technology, it’s possible to upgrade your engagement letters to create a more automated, better-connected way of working where firms get more value.

  • accounting and auditing
  • practice management
  • technology and cybersecurity

Tax services: Proposed revisions to the Code of Professional Conduct

September 15, 2025

PEEC welcomes comments on all aspects of these proposed revisions to the code. In addition, PEEC is asking for feedback on the following specific aspects of the revisions...

  • accounting and auditing

New: Digital assets practice aid addresses auditing of lending, borrowing

September 03, 2025

The AICPA updated its digital assets practice aid to assist practitioners with scenarios involving crypto lending and borrowing.

  • accounting and auditing
  • federal tax

PCAOB Postpones Effective Date of QC 1000 and Related Standards, Rules, and Forms

August 28, 2025

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) announced that it is postponing for one year, to December 15, 2026, the effective date for QC 1000, A Firm’s System of Quality Control, and other new and amended PCAOB standards, rules, and forms adopted by the Board on May 13, 2024. The Board’s action also postpones the related rescission date of certain rules and standards that are currently in force.

  • accounting and auditing
  • practice management

PCAOB Launches Smaller Firm Resource Group

August 26, 2025

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) today announced the formation of the Smaller Firm Resource Group, an advisory group of professionals from smaller audit firms.

  • accounting and auditing

8 steps to build your firm’s quality management system on time

August 12, 2025

Firms that haven’t started establishing their quality management system can get it done by the Dec. 15 deadline by following these steps.

  • accounting and auditing

AICPA unveils new QM resources to help firms meet Dec. 15 deadline

August 12, 2025

The clock is ticking. Accounting firms must establish systems of quality management (QM) by the Dec. 15, 2025, effective date of the new QM standards governing accounting and auditing (A&A) practices.

  • accounting and auditing

Be Prepared: The Quality Management Standards Are Coming

August 12, 2025

The AICPA’s Statements on Quality Management Standards’ (“SQMS”) December 15, 2025, effective date is fast approaching, and few firms are prepared.

  • accounting and auditing

FASB Issues Standard that Improves Measurement of Credit Losses for Accounts Receivable and Contract Assets

July 30, 2025

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) today issued an Accounting Standards Update (ASU) that improves guidance on the measurement of credit losses for accounts receivable and contract assets.

  • accounting and auditing

Financial Accounting Foundation Seeks Nominations for the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council

July 24, 2025

The Board of Trustees of the Financial Accounting Foundation (FAF) today announced that it is seeking nominations for new members to join the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council (FASAC) for an initial one-year term beginning January 1, 2026. The FASAC is the primary advisory body to the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB).

  • accounting and auditing