Bank Accounting & Finance provides information for senior-level banking professionals on U.S. accounting and auditing rules, international standards, banking and securities regulations, investment portfolios, and asset/liability management. This journal keeps accountants, controllers and comptrollers, risk managers and tax professionals who work at or consult with commercial banks, up to date on how to implement and react to changes by the FASB, the SEC, as well as the IASB.

Here is some recent coverage that you may have missed:

• Expanding stock options: what will be the effect on financial institutions?
• Effects of the Federal Home Loan Banks on commercial bank loans and profitability in Texas
• New interagency guidance on the internal audit function
• Implementing the requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley to final rules on management’s reports on internal control and on influencing the conduct of audits
• Trends in outsourcing finance and accounting
• Short-term convergence between U.S. GAAP and international financial reporting standards
• FASB Statement No. 133: The effect on 25 large banks
• Buy-sell agreements between subchapter S Corporations and national bank directors