Posts Tagged ‘PCAOB’
PCAOB Board to Be Sacked
SEC chairman Paul Atkins is moving to replace the entire board of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, one week after Atkins muscled out PCAOB chairman Erica Williams years before her term was due to expire. Atkins disclosed his plans in a statement quietly issued Wednesday night, calling for candidates for all five PCOAB board…
Read MoreTwo Telling Moves From SEC
The image of the Trump 2.0 Administration is starting to emerge at the Securities and Exchange Commission! On Tuesday the agency both muscled out the head of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board and dropped FCPA charges against two former executives of Cognizant Technologies — acts that, taken together, send a clear signal of where…
Read MoreRepublicans Press Ahead With PCAOB Kill
A key House committee voted Wednesday night to abolish the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, moving one early but important step forward in Republicans’ goal of ending the agency. The House Financial Services Committee voted along party lines, Republicans in favor and Democrats against, to cease funding the PCAOB and transfer all its duties and…
Read MoreRepublicans Propose Abolishing PCAOB
Republicans in Congress unveiled legislation on Friday to abolish the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board and fold the PCAOB’s audit industry oversight duties into the Securities and Exchange Commission. The House Financial Services Committee released the proposed text Friday evening, presumably hoping that nobody would notice. The bill would take the PCAOB’s duties — approving…
Read MorePCAOB Points to Audit Progress
The head of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board launched a charm offensive this week, praising audit firms for falling rates of deficient audits and stressing that the PCAOB plays an important role in investor protection. I’m sure Republicans’ anti-PCAOB mood these days was just a coincidence. Erica Williams, chair of the PCAOB, spoke Wednesday…
Read MoreGuidance on Root Cause Analysis
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has published fresh guidance on how to perform a root cause analysis, for anyone out there who wants to understand the root of your problems. The guidance, published Tuesday, is geared toward audit firms rather than corporate businesses, so not all the advice in its nine pages will be…
Read MorePCAOB Alert on Company-Produced Evidence
The PCAOB has published fresh advice for audit firms about how to evaluate data and reports provided by their client companies. Internal audit teams might want to take note, since such PCAOB “advice” has a habit of soon becoming new demands placed upon you by your auditor. The report, blandly titled “Inspection Observations Related to…
Read MorePCAOB Cheating Crackdown Continues
U.S. accounting regulators today fined KPMG’s Dutch affiliate $25 million for rampant employee cheating on the firm’s training exams, and then topped that eye-popping enforcement action with two more smaller fines against Deloitte’s Indonesia and Philippines affiliates for similar offenses. The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board dropped this news bomb on Wednesday morning, and it’s…
Read MoreNOCLAR Audit Proposal Keeps Going
The Public Company Accounting Oversight board is seeking more input on its controversial proposal for audit firms to look more aggressively for compliance violations at client companies, amid continuing fierce debate over the benefits and potential costs of the idea. The PCAOB announced Monday that it will hold a roundtable on March 6 to solicit…
Read MorePCAOB Talks 2024 Audit Issues
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board plans to inspect more corporate audits in 2024, casting an especially watchful eye at audits of financial and IT companies, as well as businesses that engaged in mergers and acquisitions in 2023. So says an alert the PCAOB published earlier this week, previewing the agency’s priorities for 2024 audit…
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