SEC Votes to Ease Audit Requirements
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Securities regulators unanimously embraced a plan that they said would slash costs and restore common sense to an audit rule attacked as too expensive by business groups and lawmakers.
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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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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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Rupert Murdoch&#39;s News Corp. will strengthen corporate governance provisions to ease concern among investors who threatened to vote against the company&#39;s proposed move to the US if shareholder rights were diminished.
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The House of Representatives on  Wednesday overwhelmingly passed a business-backed bill that  would tighten rules for federal review of foreign takeovers of  U.S. companies without discouraging such investments.
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WASHINGTON: Hedge fund advisers will have to register with the US Securities and Exchange Commission and submit to examinations under a new rule approved on Tuesday in a 3-2 vote by the market-policing agency.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission approved a plan yesterday to allow companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange to retain their three-letter ticker symbols should they transfer to Nasdaq.
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After spending the past few years mounting a strong corporate governance campaign, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced Friday that it would start easing its rules
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Top auditing firms, collectively known as the Big Four, said the Sarbanes-Oxley Act has sharply increased the amount of work they must do for clients.
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Hedge fund advisers will have to register with the US Securities and Exchange Commission and submit to examinations under a new rule approved in a 3-2 vote by the market-policing agency on Tuesday.
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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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Accounting regulators adopted rules yesterday requiring publicly traded companies to treat the stock options they give to employees as normal business expenses.
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday took a step toward allowing foreign public companies to choose international accounting standards or U.S. rules when filing data with the agency.
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A new law that takes effect today will shorten the time a check takes to clear -- and muddy the finances of check writers who rely on the &quot;float.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday gave investors an easier way to compare executive compensation at 500 U.S. companies with an online, interactive tool.
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Accounting regulators adopted rules on Thursday requiring publicly traded companies to treat the stock options they give to employees as normal business expenses.
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Molson Coors Brewing Co.  on Thursday said in a regulatory filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that its audit committee has ended a year-long investigation into a complaint after concluding it was without merit.