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Following the stock market crash of 1929 accountants were entrusted with a new profession and a new mandate to pore over the books of public companies to ensure that the financial records accurately ...

Explore how ancient accounting systems from Sumeria to Greece tracked trade, taxes, and resources, shaping early economies ...

Public Company Accounting Oversight Board chairman James Doty recently delivered an illuminating history of the accounting profession in New York during a speech. The speech, during an auditing ...

Man and machine have been at odds in the workplace for centuries, with the debate surrounding whether the latter would replace the former revived at various inflection points throughout history. The ...