By Kyle Brasseur2019-11-26T16:13:00
The Financial Accounting Standards Board has issued an update to the upcoming standard on credit losses that addresses negative allowances and expected recoveries.
2020-03-25T15:06:00Z By Maria L. Murphy
Two regulatory chairs are battling over whether a delay is needed for financial institutions to implement the updated credit loss standard; also expressed are opposing views on how loan modifications should be viewed in terms of troubled debt restructurings.
2020-02-10T20:29:00Z By Maria L. Murphy
Fourth-quarter earnings calls of large U.S. public financial institutions provide insights into FASB’s current expected credit loss (CECL) standard.
2020-01-09T13:36:00Z By Maria L. Murphy
As auditors get ready for year-end audits, internal controls and new accounting standards are on their radar.
2025-10-15T19:16:00Z By Ruth Prickett
Auditors are supposed to keep businesses honest, but how much regulation is the optimum for the auditors – and how onerous and punitive should the enforcement regime be? A new consultation by the U.K. regulator, the Financial Reporting Council, opened on Oct. 1 and has put the vexed question of ...
2025-10-07T20:32:00Z By Jaclyn Jaeger
Emerging technologies, like artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced data analytics, can improve audit quality in significant ways. As the regulatory overseer of public-company audits, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) has a critical role to play by ensuring that its audit standards evolve as the audit profession evolves.
2025-07-21T14:13:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
Continuing a Trump administration practice of firing independent regulators, the head of the Public Accounting Oversight Board has been sent packing.
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