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GASB Issues Guidance on Subsequent Events
December 17, 2025
The Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) has issued Statement No. 105, Subsequent Events, which is designed to improve the financial reporting requirements for subsequent events.
2026 FASB Taxonomies Now Available
December 15, 2025
The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) today announced the availability of the 2026 GAAP Financial Reporting Taxonomy (GRT), the 2026 SEC Reporting Taxonomy (SRT), and the 2026 GAAP Employee Benefit Plan Taxonomy (EBPT). The FASB also announced the availability of the 2026 DQC Rules Taxonomy (DQCRT) and the 2026 GAAP Meta Model Relationships Taxonomy (MMT), which, together with the GRT, SRT, and EBPT, is collectively referred to as the “FASB Taxonomies.”
2026 Top Regulatory Issues: What Businesses Should Know
December 12, 2025
Business owners spent the majority of 2025 dealing with inflation, tariffs, a labor market made flush by mass layoffs, funding accessibility, a federal government shutdown, and a single piece of legislation that had widespread tax implications.
Audit transformation road map: New report lays out the journey
December 10, 2025
A new report from CPA.com and the AICPA creates a snapshot of what a typical audit firm transformation looks like, based on feedback from 54 U.S. firms of various sizes and maturity levels.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.