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Category: Accounting

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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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The Securities and Exchange Commission has spent the better part of a year scaling back its enforcement function. There are fewer cases, lower penalties, reduced staffing, and a revised enforcement manual. So when a new enforcement unit mat...

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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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A Tax Transparency Reckoning: Are Corporate Tax Disclosures Entering a New Era?

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As outlined in a new Intelligize report, The New Disclosure Challenge: Income Taxes, ASU 2023-09 and Investor Expectations, the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s issuance of ASU 2023-09 is recalibrating how public companies report rate...

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Compensation Clawbacks Begin to Take Hold in Corporate America

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Macy’s Inc. filed its annual proxy statement this year on April 1, also known as April Fools’ Day. Unfortunately for some of the New York-based department store chain’s executives, the company wasn’t joking when it disclosed a portion of th...

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