Two things to share today. First, Mazars has “paused” crypto work effective immediately. Reports WSJ: […]
Category: Audit
PCAOB Chair Williams Reminds Us For the 1,000th Time She Is Sick of Auditors’ Bullsh*t
Another day, another scathing speech from PCAOB Chair Erica Williams. Today it’s from prepared remarks […]
The PCAOB Is Not Impressed with the Quality of Firms’ 2021 Audits
The PCAOB should be dropping the first batch of 2021 inspection reports soon, and as […]
We Forgot to Mention KPMG Got Caught Cheating Again
The PCAOB announced Wednesday it has imposed $7.7 million in penalties against KPMG Colombia (Firm: […]
If There Was a PCAOB In the Metaverse, It Would Probably Find a Bunch of Errors In Prager Metis’s Audits Too
In an article for CoinDesk, Francine McKenna took a crack at why the FTX debacle […]
SEC Enforcement Released Its Greatest Hits for FY 2022
The SEC Division of Enforcement cracked a lot of skulls in fiscal 2022, as it […]
Carillion Liquidators Roast KPMG: “A Competent Auditor Would Have Detected the Misstatements”
The Carillion failure is still working its way through the courts and now KPMG is […]
PCAOB Hopes Updating Quality Control Rules Will Maybe Prevent Audit Firms From Constantly Breaking Quality Control Rules
From the earliest days of Going Concern until most recently last month, quality control has […]
Which Firm Had the Most IPO Audit Clients In Q3 2022?
The initial public offering slump of 2022 continued in the third quarter, as the 39 […]
Supposedly PCAOB China Inspections Went Well, the Environment Was Not Necessarily Considered
People who presumably aren’t paid by the Chinese government to say “everything is great!” have […]
Our Audits Sucked Because the Auditors Are Exhausted, Says Deloitte Australia
Last week the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (think Aussie PCAOB) informed us that Deloitte […]
EY Reminds Us That Audits Provide ‘Reasonable Assurance,’ Not a Guarantee That Billions of Dollars Aren’t Hidden From the Balance Sheet
The NMC Health collapse of 2020 is still haunting EY UK, this time in London […]