On June 4–5, USC Leventhal School of Accounting, the USC SEC and Financial Reporting Institute, and Financial Executives International co-hosted the 44th Annual SEC and Financial Reporting Conference. The two-day event, which took place at Town & Gown, included panels and remarks on shifting regulatory conditions, financial reporting, and the implementation of artificial intelligence within the sector. “As you all know, the profession is evolving quite rapidly with new technologies, new regulatory challenges, changing stakeholder expectations,” Call said. In the opening keynote session, Kurt Hohl, chief accountant at the SEC, echoed Call’s remarks on new technologies. They're using generative AI and agentic AI in their audit testing and their audit procedures to improve audit quality.”