ACCOUNTING: U.S. Audit Partner Disclosures: What's in a Name? After over a decade of back and forth negotiations, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board's Rule…

ACCOUNTING: Update: SEC: 404(b) Comment Period Ends The 60-day comment period on the SEC proposal to amend its definitions of large accelerated filer and accelerated…

ACCOUNTING: New Loan Impairment Standard Will Affect More Than Big Banks --and that's what some in Congress worry about  The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB)…

ACCOUNTING: Quarterly Reporting Will be Focus of SEC Roundtable The SEC announced that it will hold a roundtable this summer to discuss short-termism and the…

ACCOUNTING: Easing the burden for smaller companies  SEC Proposes Change to SOX 404(b) Requirement  The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted to propose amendments to…

ACCOUNTING: Unaudited Earnings Announcements and Insider Trading - An earlier issue of Simply Stated (Feb/2019) reported on a new study by Indiana University's Kelley School…

ACCOUNTING: "Test-the-Waters" Proposed for All Issuers- The Securities and Exchange Commission will propose an expansion of a popular modernization reform that would permit investor views about…

ACCOUNTING: Unaudited Earnings Announcements - A new study by Indiana University's Kelley School of Business has found that over two-thirds of U.S. public companies now…

ACCOUNTING: Financial Reporting Changes Actively Considered-- On December 18, 2018 the SEC published a request for comment soliciting input on "the nature, content, and timing…