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Category: Accounting

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Tariff Refunds: A Tale of Two Accounting Approaches

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Last month we looked at the prickly issue of how companies are accounting for tariff costs. The accounting questions on the other side of that ledger—what do you do when you might get your money back?—turn out to be equally thorny. After th...

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Five Potential Impacts of Semiannual SEC Reporting

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If you don’t run a public company, the idea of shifting from quarterly to semiannual financial reporting may sound like a classic case of a solution in search of a problem. There was nothing obviously broken about the system that generated...

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SEC Weighs in on Tariff Accounting, Just in Time

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Public companies have been asking a critical question since tariffs started reshaping their cost structures, which has largely gone unanswered: how are we supposed to account for all of this? Fortunately, they just received the closest thin...

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The SEC’s New SOX Squad: Five Takeaways for Auditors and Public Companies

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In a shrinking enforcement area, the SOX group is growing.The SEC initiated only 10 accounting and auditing actions in 2025, the lowest number in nine years. The monetary figures are even more striking than those case counts. The SEC collec...

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Early Disclosures Point to Massive Corporate Tax Savings from “Big Beautiful Bill”

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The House of Representatives traditionally reserves the bill number H.R. 1 in each new session of Congress for a piece of legislation that reflects what the Speaker of the House deems to be the controlling party’s top priority. This year, t...

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