“The Master’s in Governmental Accounting at Rutgers looked too perfect for me,” Catherine Sykes said to herself. “I must be missing something.” She dug deeper into the program. “I checked that it was ...

The Financial Accounting Standards Board issued a proposed accounting standards update Tuesday to establish authoritative guidance on the accounting for government grants received by business entities ...

The 2014 US News & World Report ranking for “Best Online Graduate Business Programs” ranked the Rutgers Business School Master of Accountancy in Governmental Accounting program 27th in the nation out ...

While management accountants across a number of industries face talent gaps and training challenges, governmental accounting perhaps faces the most difficult obstacles, including low pay, high ...

As workers search for better opportunities and the demand for public sector workers continues to increase, accounting professionals working in the private sector should consider whether switching to a ...

Last year, the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) voted to defer the effective date of lease accounting standard GASB 87 to give public sector entities more time to adapt to the many ...

Daniel Liberto is a journalist with over 10 years of experience working with publications such as the Financial Times, The Independent, and Investors Chronicle. Katrina Ávila Munichiello is an ...

Private and governmental entities use separate accounting standards to create their financial statements and manage their funds. Without knowing the differences between the standards, it is harder for ...

Nearly every public and private business entity — across all levels of government, small and large businesses and major accounting firms (such as KPMG, EY, Deloitte and PwC) — employs finance ...

Fund accounting is an accounting system that’s used by nonprofit organizations or government entities. Learn more about its importance and how it works. Fund accounting is a bookkeeping system. It is ...