Accounting standards

Institute of Management Accountants president and CEO Jeff Thomson
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Michael Cohn
December 24, 2020 2:06 PM

The Institute of Management Accountants reported record growth in 2020 despite the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the accounting profession.

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Michael Cohn
November 18, 2020 4:39 PM

Nearly one-third of companies are reducing their overall real estate footprint as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, with 31 percent of companies renegotiating leases for more favorable terms, according to a new report.

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Michael Cohn
November 13, 2020 5:25 PM

The Governmental Accounting Standards Board is giving state and local governments extra time to implement its new leases standard because of the coronavirus pandemic, and they will need it.

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Michael Cohn
November 4, 2020 5:36 PM

Having started his transition at the beginning of the pandemic, Board Chair Richard Jones now faces the uncertainty of the presidential election and what Congress might do with accounting standards.

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Michael Cohn
October 7, 2020 2:19 PM

The document discusses some considerations involving the use of specialists when auditing financial statements during the pandemic.

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Michael Cohn
October 6, 2020 3:16 PM

Global confidence improved significantly in the third quarter of the year among accountants.

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Michael Cohn
October 5, 2020 5:39 PM

The board has voted to defer the effective date of its long-duration insurance contract standard for one year.

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Kristen Keats
September 24, 2020 10:28 AM

If the pandemic has a silver lining, it’s that the global accounting world is becoming smaller and borderless.

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A medical personal directs a patient at a free Covid-19 testing site in Hayward, California, U.S., on Monday, March 23, 2020. Governor Newsom on March 19 ordered that all of the state’s 40 million residents go into home isolation while saying outdoor activity is permissible with proper social distancing. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
Michael Cohn
September 22, 2020 3:11 PM

At least 39 states did not have enough money to pay all of their bills at the end of 2019, leaving them ill-prepared to shoulder the costs of the novel coronavirus pandemic, according to a new report.

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Michael Cohn
September 22, 2020 1:54 PM

Now that U.S. companies have experienced two fiscal quarters in the midst of the novel coronavirus pandemic, quarterly reporting for Q3 doesn’t seem to be getting any simpler, according to a new report from Deloitte.

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