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The goal of the proposed rules is to enhance the integrity of audits and restore investor confidence.

Jay D. Hanson, a member of the PCAOB board, said that he believes the PCAOB should clarify descriptions of inspection deficiencies.

Yes, it is not easy. The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) has come down hard on external audit firms over the quality of audits and increased errors being detected.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board ("PCAOB") discovered a high number of audit deficiencies among auditors of broker-dealers based on data collected from 75 firms and 116 audits conducted during 2017.

On June 24, 2014, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board released staff guidance to help auditors of brokers and dealers registered with the SEC plan.

On September 24, 2024, the PCAOB issued settled orders sanctioning four audit firms. As part of an ongoing enforcement sweep, the PCAOB found that Accell Audit & Compliance P.A. ("Accell")...

What are auditors and audit committees doing to get ready for the impending disclosure of CAMs in audit reports ? You remember that, under AS 3101, the new auditing standard for the auditor's report ...

Some companies may indeed benefit from working with a consultant to review software licensing and deployment practices.

Many scenarios create the need for a company to obtain an actuarial valuation.

If you're a fund manager of a partnership investing in the United States, you need to prepare for new audit rules enacted by the IRS.

I usually advise my clients to cooperate with the BSA, but to do so without compromising any legal rights.

Auditors can also provide valuable information that is key to operational performance and success and keep you in the loop on best practices and emerging issues in your industry.

A regulatory compliance audit is an assessment of a business's policies, procedures, and practices against an established set of legal requirements or industry best practices.

The 2022 proxy season has highlighted shareholders' ever-growing focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). In 2021, a new trend emerged as 13 shareholder proposals...

Two recent acts of Congress (including the rather interestingly named Protection of Americans from Tax Hikes Act) created new audit rules for partnerships.

On April 30, 2025, the Financial Services Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives voted to advance a draft bill that would abolish the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB).

On April 25, shareholders of General Electric Company (GE) approved KPMG LLP as the company's auditor for another year, but only by a margin of 65 percent "for" to 35 percent "against."