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Category: Audit
U.K. Accounting Regulator Chides KPMG For ‘Unacceptable’ Decline in Audit Quality
And here I thought Phil Mickelson’s meltdown on the 13th green at the U.S. Open […]
Everything You Wanted to Know About Internal Audit (But Were Afraid to Ask)
If you’d asked me for the definition of internal audit a few months ago, I […]
Ready or Not: Auditors Descend on Department of Defense
It’s not as cool as a multi-ship C-17 formation dropping paratroopers as a part of […]
U.K. Audit Regulator Encouraged to Slap Big 4 Wrists Slightly Harder
Despite what you might hear, Big 4 audit firms have it pretty easy when it […]
Watering Down Data Analytics for Dumb Accountants
Most accountants, especially CPAs, seem smart on paper. Some even live up to it in […]
KPMG Settles With SEC Over a Giant Failure of an Audit
KPMG has settled SEC charges for $6.2 million due to a shoddy audit of an […]
Sarbanes-Oxley 15 Years Later: Accountants Need to Speak Up Now More Than Ever
This Sunday, July 30, 2017, marks the 15th anniversary of the enactment of the Sarbanes-Oxley […]
Big 4 Auditors Are Probably Looking Forward to More Amiable PCAOB
Michael Rapoport reports in the Wall Street Journal on the waning James Doty era at […]
PCAOB Inspectors Find IT Auditors on the Struggle Bus
In case you missed the news earlier this month, all of the PCAOB reports are […]
Deloitte’s Brazil Firm Covered Up a Couple of Bad Audits
The big news in the international audit firm world today is an announcement by the […]
Good Enough for Government Accounting: Junk Shop Treasure and Two (Allegedly) Crooked Auditors
First the good news (treasure discovered!) and then the bad news (some auditor generals are […]