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Questions about GASB Statement No. 103 repeatedly centered on three topics during the GASB 103 & Beyond: Key Updates for Public Sector Entities webinar from Forvis Mazars: subsidies and transfers, budgetary comparison information, and proprietary fund presentation. Together, these topics accounted for 39 of the 51 attendee questions.

Korea’s major banks are sharply increasing their cybersecurity budgets for next year following a series of hacking incidents, with some lenders planning to spend more than 100 billion won ($74 million) on information security, data showed Monday.

Consumers are shifting their holiday spending this year, doing a reset given higher prices and increased living costs such as increasing fuel costs.

After the banking sector hacking crisis, commercial banks are increasing next year’s information security budgets while conducting emergency checks and service shutdowns to address PHP vulnerabilities.

Artificial intelligence (AI) platforms are wielding increasing influence on where and how customers shop online — and as they do, retailers appear to be changing how they spend on marketing and ads.

Holiday shoppers starting earlier, budgets climb to $849 | Retail Customer Experience

Holiday shoppers, facing economic challenges, likely won’t spend less this season. What they will change, however, is how they spend.

CANADIAN accounting firms are moving toward a consequential new stage of automation. Canadian Accountant’s September 2 article on AI Digital Employees describes systems that can take responsibility for defined elements of accounting work rather than simply answer prompts. That shift can produce major productivity gains, but it changes the governance question. Firms now need to decide…

Artificial intelligence has emerged as the leading driver of new cybersecurity investment even as overall security budgets remain nearly flat, according to the 2026 Security Budget Benchmark Report from IANS and Artico Search.

A record-breaking investment of more than $21 million in fire apparatus replacements and repairs is included in the 2026 proposed Columbus capital budget, a move city leaders say is meant to help the Columbus Division of Fire catch up after concerns about the condition of its fleet drew public backlash this year.