Ernst & Young is lobbying partners to support an ambitious plan to take public the firm’s consulting, strategy, and managed services within the next two years.

A backlog of work means that the International Accounting Standards Board will tackle only two major projects over the next five years unless it is given more resources, its chairman said Friday.

The International Sustainability Standards Board is taking on two new members, it said Friday, meaning the new body will have enough people in place to make decisions when it meets next month for the first time.

Audit firms and companies including United Parcel Service Inc. and BNP Paribas SA urged the SEC to revamp onerous climate accounting requirements as the regulator considers a major expansion of corporate reporting.

Our Spotlight series highlights the careers and lives of tax professionals across the globe. This week’s focus is on Kristine Butterbaugh, a subject matter expert and strategy leader for the Tax and Regulatory line of business at the tax software company Sovos.

A recent proposal from Sens. Cynthia Lummis and Kirsten Gillibrand aims to set regulatory and tax ground rules for cryptocurrencies. Seth Wilks, director of government relations at software company TaxBit, and Omri Marian, a tax professor at the UC Irvine’s School of Law, discuss the plan on the latest episode of Talking Tax.

A Citigroup Inc. employee who filed a whistle-blower suit over risk management failures was denied a share of a $400 million penalty the bank later paid to resolve similar claims by the Office of Comptroller of the Currency and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Intel Corporation has appointed Scott Gawel as corporate vice president and chief accounting officer. Gawel will serve as the chipmaker’s top accountant starting on July 6, according to a Form 8-K the company filed this week with the Securities and Exchanges Commission.

Materiality is the key issue in determining what companies should have to disclose in sustainability reports, according to the International Sustainability Standards Board chief. Defining sustainability, as some have suggested, is less important, he said.