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

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.

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.

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.

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).

Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) said Monday that it plans to postpone the effective date of a rule bringing certain investment advisers within the standards of its anti-money-laundering and countering-the-financing-of-terrorism (AML/CFT) programs as it revisits the rule.

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GASB on Monday issued Implementation Guidance Update — 2025, a guide updated for the first time in nearly two years that features questions and answers addressing how to apply GAAP to a variety of GASB standards.

The Governmental Accounting Standards Board is juggling a variety of projects to improve accounting for state and local governments as they come under pressure from the threat of reduced funding from the federal government.

The PCAOB has released its “Annual Report on the Interim Inspection Program Related to Audits of Brokers and Dealers(PDF).” Under federal law, the PCAOB has the responsibility to oversee firms that audit broker-dealers registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

With sustainability disclosures no longer optional extras, the responsibility for reporting them is shifting to become a finance function issue.

A new PCAOB publication – “Audit Focus: Auditing Accounting Estimates” – provides auditors with reminders and good practices about accounting estimates, an especially challenging aspect of financial statements.

Audit CTO and global solutions group leader Thomas Mackenzie explains how updating technology is reshaping audit quality, talent and regulatory strategy.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) today published an Accounting Standards Update (ASU) that improves the requirements for identifying the accounting acquirer in FASB Accounting Standards Codification® Topic 805, Business Combinations. The ASU is based on a recommendation of the Emerging Issues Task Force (EITF).

Approximately three-quarters of large global companies are receiving assurance services on their sustainability reporting, according to a new report.

With major retailers recently brought to their knees by hackers, accountants would do well to think about what could happen to their businesses and take precautions.

The PCAOB has posted a new set of staff presentation videos designed to help firms implement four areas of their quality control (QC) system under QC 1000, A Firm’s System of Quality Control.

CFOs should keep these priority areas in mind as they undergo internal audits and look to set themselves up for long-term ESG reporting success.

AICPA leadership is monitoring a legislative proposal that would defund the PCAOB, saying in a statement Monday that it “is committed to supporting the drivers of audit quality.”

The new datasets, which contain public inspection information from inspection reports going back to 2018, are machine-readable and can be used to analyze PCAOB inspection findings.