Grant Thornton news from FierceSarbox

For much of the year, I had been telling people not to hold their breath for another Sarbanes Oxley 404 delay for nonacclerated filers. My point was you couldn't count on any sort of regulatory Read more...

I know I sound like a broken record on this, but Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) is a reality. According to cfo.com, the new electronic filing language is scheduled to debut Dec. 5th, Read more...

The one thing that vexed people in the AS2 era was a lack of implementation guidance. Read more...

> Grant Thornton in expansion mode. Read more...

> Even in New Orleans, Sarbanes-Oxley work abounds. Article > Welcome to the big leagues: Grant Thornton suffers Read more...

> Does the U.S. reporting system need to be scrapped? The SEC has put together a committee to look at a possible switch from rules-based accounting to principles-based account. The accounting Read more...

Well, it has come to pass. The new guidance from the SEC and PCAOB will almost certainly be officially stamped in time for the guidance to apply to 2007 audits. So good luck. The new rules will Read more...

For the accounting firms, the Sarbanes-Oxley era has been one in which their professional image has suffered some huge PR blows. They were once seen as impartial, bean-counters making sure that a Read more...

There seem to be more cases these days of whistleblowers seeking Sarbox protection. Public companies are now burdened with institutionalizing the process of dealing with such complaints. Read more...