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Category: Accounting

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Intelligize Data: Large Filers Struggling with Internal Controls After Going Public

Dome of the U.S. Capitol building, where Sarbanes Oxley was drafted

It has been more than 20 years since Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in response to a rash of turn-of-the-century accounting scandals. But unlike those choker necklaces and Nickelback CDs you’re holding onto from the era, SOX remains...

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SEC Scrutinizing Non-GAAP Disclosures in Financial Statements

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Everybody has at least one of those friends who seem to insist on making everything more complicated than it needs to be. They ask for multiple substitutions when ordering at a restaurant. They try to convince everyone to watch the obscure...

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SEC Taking an Interest in Accounting Enforcement

Banker with Briefcase running away from SEC Enforcement

The implosions of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank this month may have come as a surprise to KPMG LLP, one of the so-called Big Four accounting firms. Both banks collapsed within two weeks of KPMG signing off on their audits. In the w...

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If Fraud is Never Caught, did it Really Happen?

A groundhog (marmot) eats a large carrot

Criminal charges like the ones currently levied against FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried raise an important question for corporate stakeholders: Is securities fraud rampant? Corporate America would undoubtedly bristle at the suggestion, deemin...

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PCAOB Sees Audit Quality Slipping

Fitness enthusiast lifting weights

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has a message for auditors: Shape up. According to the PCAOB’s latest report on audit inspections, firms are producing audits with deficiencies at an increasing rate. The board is projecting tha...

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