Accounting

There are three ways to tell whether you have true leadership potential, according to this article: You lead only when you have to; you observe more than you take action; you focus on the team. Read More

Technology has become all the rage for businesses, but it can expose them to serious risk. A technology columnist cites the example of Google Glass, which at its launch was already creating controvers… Read More

The Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission's updated Internal Control -- Integrated Framework, released in May, will affect businesses in three ways, according to this piece.… Read More

Switzerland's House of Representatives voted 126 to 67 to reject a law that would allow banks to give some information on suspected tax evaders to U.S. tax authorities. Opponents said the measure viol… Read More

The U.S. Judicial Conference Standing Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure has approved for public comment proposed amendments to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure pertaining to discovery in ci… Read More

The Financial Accounting Standards Board and the International Accounting Standards Board are working on a proposed revenue-recognition standard as part of the effort to create uniform accounting stan… Read More

The Senate Finance Committee has laid out the issues it is likely to consider regarding charitable deductions as it works on an overhaul of the federal income tax system. In a background paper distrib… Read More

Leaders of the G-8 countries declared this week that tax authorities across the world should automatically share information "to fight the scourge of tax evasion," and they agreed to eight steps to im… Read More