S.E.C. Revises Its Standards for Corporate Audits
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The new guidelines are part of an effort to make compliance on accounting less costly for small companies.
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Regulators have reached an agreement in principle on how to revamp a contentious accounting rule that cost businesses millions of dollars more than anticipated, removing a pair of major stumbling blocks attacked by consumer advocates.
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The Food and Drug Administration  said yesterday that it is making changes in the way it operates to prevent the kind of drug safety controversies that have dogged the agency in recent years.
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MICHAEL CHERKASKY, the new chief executive of Marsh &amp; McLennan, yesterday promised âcomplete transparencyâ and announced a major overhaul of the way the embattled insurance broker does business.
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The House of Representatives voted to revise rules for foreign investments in the U.S., seeking to make them clearer for businesses while preserving national security.
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Standard &amp; Poor&#39;s Ratings Services on Thursday revised its credit ratings outlook on Poland to stable from negative supported by strength in export growth and an improvement in the country&#39;s fiscal performance.
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The S.E.C. is now considering whether a different kind of auction will be allowed to set values on company income statements.
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The S.E.C. is examining whether corporations alter projections for health care costs, pension plan returns and other factors as a way of manipulating earnings.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission has given a large number of companies an additional 45 days to meet a number of the requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which guides how auditors report on companies&#39; assessments of their internal
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The S.E.C. accused former executives of RenaissanceRe Holdings of practicing fraudulent accounting to improve earnings reports.
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The new regulatory body for the auditing industry said that its inspections of the Big Four accounting firms had found "significant audit and accounting issues."
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Accounting industry overseers gave audit firms more flexibility in the way they review clients' financial risks yesterday, bowing to criticism that their initial rule imposed too many costs and burdens.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is giving securities brokers up to November 2005 to shift to the use of risk-based capital adequacy standards from the current net capital standards.
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The proposed accounting standards would allow auditors to do less work â and charge less money â when assessing internal controls over financial reporting.
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The House of Representatives voted  on Wednesday to revise how the federal government reviews  foreign takeovers of U.S. companies, sending the legislation to  the White House.
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Standards chief calls for more transparency to repair the damage done to public confidence
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Securities regulators yesterday voted to overhaul a corporate rule covering financial risks, reacting to intense pressure from Congress and years of criticism from industry groups who claim the directive proved too expensive and burdensome.