ABA Urges Restraint in PCAOB Proposal
ABA recently urged the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board to emphasize enforcement of current audit requirements relating to the work...
Tax and Accounting
ABA Cautions FASB on Stock Option Proposal
ABA yesterday warned the Financial Accounting Standards Board that a proposed change in accounting for stock options will subject a...
ABA Hires Kinsella as Top Tax Expert
ABA today announced that John Kinsella has been named its new VP for tax policy. Kinsella joined ABA from U.S....
SEC Proposal on Audit Committee Disclosures: Will Investors Care?
As if audit committees (ACs) don’t have enough to worry about in the post Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) era, the SEC is...
FASB Stock Option Accounting Simplification: Mark to Market Accounting for Compensation?
The Financial Accounting Standards Board’s latest effort to simplify accounting standards focuses on expenses related to stock option compensation. At...
OCC: Credit, Compliance Risk Growing in 2015
Noting an environment of “high” credit, strategic, compliance and operational risk, the OCC outlined nine priorities for ongoing midsize and...
Onerous Tax Reporting Provision Removed from Trade Bill
Following advocacy by ABA, state associations, bankers and other financial trade groups, a controversial revenue-raising provision in trade preferences bill...
ABA’s Carney: TruPS Issue Comes Back to Haunt Community Banks
Despite regulators' action -- and ABA's lawsuit -- after the Volcker Rule to protect existing bank investments in trust preferred...
Banks Join DOJ’s Swiss Bank Program
The Justice Department announced last week that four banks — Société Générale Private Banking (Lugano-Svizzera), MediBank AG, LBBW (Schweiz) AG,...
Internal Audit, COSO Peer Groups Formed
Since the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, banks have placed increased focus on internal audit. In response to member requests, ABA...
